Mino no kuni Yōrō taki (Yōrō Falls in Mino Province), from the series Shokoku taki meguri (A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces)
Katsushika Hokusai, Mino no kuni Yōrō taki (Yōrō Falls in Mino Province), from the series Shokoku taki meguri (A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces), 1833/1834, color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e, The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection, public domain, 32.443
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- Title
Mino no kuni Yōrō taki (Yōrō Falls in Mino Province), from the series Shokoku taki meguri (A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces)
- Related Titles
original language: 美濃ノ国養老の滝
series (original language): 諸國瀧廻り
series (translated): A Tour of Waterfalls Around the Country
series (transliterated): Shokoku taki meguri
translated: Yōrō Falls in Mino Province
transliterated: Mino no kuni Yōrō no taki
- Artist
- Related People
publisher: Nishimura Yohachi (Japanese, active mid-19th century)
- Date
1833/1834
- Period
Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)
- Medium
color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image/sheet: 14 5/8 in x 10 3/16 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
title: 諸國瀧廻り // 美濃ノ国養老の滝, printed in blue ink within a double rectangular cartouche, upper left Transliteration (Translation): Shokoku taki meguri // Mino no kuni Yōrō no taki (A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces // The Care-of-the-aged Waterfall in Mino Province) Language: Japanese Description: Yōrō literally translates as caring for the elderly, or, spending one's old age in comfort
publisher's mark: 栄壽堂, printed in red relief within square cartouche, center right Transliteration (Translation): Eijudō ([seal of the publisher Nishimuraya Yohachi 西村屋与八]) Language: Japanese Description: Edo publisher, firm active c. 1751-1860
censor's mark: 極, printed in red relief within circular cartouche, center right Transliteration (Translation): kiwame (approval) Language: Japanese
signature: 前北斎為一筆, printed in blue ink, center right Transliteration (Translation): saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu (brushed [by] Iitsu, formerly Hokusai) Language: Japanese Description: Hokusai used many signatures over the course of his many decades of activity.
- Collection Area
Asian Art; Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
Japanese Traditional Prints
- Object Type
relief print
- Culture
Japanese
- Credit Line
The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection
- Accession Number
32.443
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
This series is a tribute to the spiritual connection between humans and nature. Hokusai goes beyond naturalistic depiction to give each waterfall a unique character, from the writhing flow of the Falling Mist Waterfall in Shimotsuke to the forceful deluge of Yōrō Falls in Mino. Like mountains, waterfalls were traditionally regarded as sacred spaces where gods and spirits dwelled. As Hokusai’s reverent onlookers make clear, to be close to a waterfall was to experience the presence of the divine in nature.
- Exhibitions
2006 Through Rustling Grasses: Nature in the Japanese Print Portland Art Museum
2011 The Artist's Touch, The Craftsman's Hand: Three Centuries of Japanese Prints from the Portland Art Museum Portland Art Museum
2022; 2023 Human Nature: 150 Years of Japanese Landscape Prints Portland Art Museum