Hokusai's genre scenes, bijin-ga (beautiful women), and miscellaneous subjects represent the breadth of his career across more than seven decades. The market for non-landscape Hokusai prints has strengthened as collectors seek beyond the most famous designs.
Comb products from Tsuchiyama — a post town on the Tokaido highway in Omi Province — are depicted in a composition that documents regional craft production of the kind that sustained Edo Japan's consumer economy. Hokusai produced several prints illustrating local specialties during his Tokaido-related work around 1804, treating commercial goods with the same attentive formalism he brought to natural subjects.
1821
Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; surimono shikishiban
1822
Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
1822
Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
c. 1832
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
c. 1833/34
Color woodblock print; oban
c. 1922
Color woodblock print
行商人
c. 1940
Color woodblock print
Comb Products in Tsuchiyama was created by Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎) in c. 1804.
Comb Products in Tsuchiyama depicts market scenes, craftspeople, and travel scenes.