Lower Meguro (Shimo Meguro), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"
- Series:
- Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (print 25 of 46)
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
Lower Meguro (Shimo Meguro) in Hokusai's Fugaku sanjurokkei presents a village area south of Edo where the Meguro River ran through a landscape of tea houses and rice paddies. Hokusai's composition places Mount Fuji at a distance across flat terrain, the mountain's familiar triangular profile rising above a horizon of low buildings and trees. The foreground likely includes travelers on a road or figures at rest near the river, rendered with the energetic, confident line that distinguishes Hokusai's figural work. The Prussian blue (bero-ai) central to the series appears in flat, ungraduated application to the sky and water areas, contrasting with the pale buff ground of the open agricultural landscape. Meguro was known as a destination for Edo residents — its forested precincts and river-fed gardens made it a recreational area just beyond the city's eastern edge. Hokusai's treatment situates Fuji within this suburban agricultural landscape rather than a dramatic natural setting, a compositional choice that emphasized the mountain's ubiquitous, almost incidental presence across the Kanto plain and made ordinary working landscapes the frame through which the sacred peak was perceived.
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.
Lower Meguro (Shimo Meguro), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)" was created by Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎).
Yes — Lower Meguro (Shimo Meguro), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)" is part of the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series (print 25 of 46) by Katsushika Hokusai.
Lower Meguro (Shimo Meguro), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)" depicts landscapes and mount fuji.
Lower Meguro (Shimo Meguro), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)" measures 25.8 × 37.4 cm.