Descending Geese for Bunshichi (Bunshichi no rakugan), from the series "Eight Views of Elegant Gallants (Furyu otokodate hakkei)"
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Hokusai's landscape prints beyond the Thirty-six Views span a remarkable range of viewpoints and weather conditions. Non-series landscape prints by Hokusai regularly appear in specialist Japanese print sales worldwide.
Bunshichi — a celebrated otokodate, a chivalrous commoner-hero of Edo popular culture — is cast as a woodsman in a witty parody of the classical "Descending Geese" scene from the Eight Views tradition. Part of the Furyu otokodate hakkei series (1781–89), the [chuban](/glossary/chuban)-format print maps Edo's street legends onto the refined landscape conventions of Chinese and Japanese literati painting.
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
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Descending Geese for Bunshichi (Bunshichi no rakugan), from the series "Eight Views of Elegant Gallants (Furyu otokodate hakkei)" was created by Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎) in 1781/89.
Yes — Descending Geese for Bunshichi (Bunshichi no rakugan), from the series "Eight Views of Elegant Gallants (Furyu otokodate hakkei)" is part of the Eight Views of Elegant Gallants (Furyu otokodate hakkei) series by Katsushika Hokusai.
Descending Geese for Bunshichi (Bunshichi no rakugan), from the series "Eight Views of Elegant Gallants (Furyu otokodate hakkei)" depicts landscapes and eight views (hakkei).