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.
Workers at a lumber yard sort and stack timber in this color woodblock print, the neatly arranged logs and planks creating a geometric pattern that Hokusai treats with the same compositional rigor he applied to natural forms. The lumber trade was central to Edo's economy — the city's relentless construction and reconstruction after fires consumed vast quantities of timber — and this print documents a working landscape seldom celebrated in Edo art.

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

1928
Color lithograph

1930
Color lithograph

1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Lumber Yard was created by Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎) in 1760–1849.
Lumber Yard depicts urban scenes, craftspeople, and daily life.
Lumber Yard measures 26.2 × 38.8 cm (Oban format).