The Tea Plantation of Katakura in Suruga Province (Sunshu Katakura chaen no Fuji), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"
- Series:
- Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (print 44 of 46)
This ôban nishiki-e from Katsushika Hokusai's series Fugaku sanjûrokkei (Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, published c. 1830–1832 by Nishimuraya Yohachi) depicts tea cultivation at Katakura village in Suruga Province, now Shizuoka Prefecture. Mount Fuji dominates the upper portion of the composition, its cone rendered in Hokusai's characteristic silhouette style, while the foreground shows cultivated tea bushes in diagonal rows with workers engaged in harvesting. Suruga Province was one of Japan's principal tea-producing regions, and this print stands among the series' most explicit depictions of agricultural labor framed against the mountain. The sky employs Prussian blue (bero-ai), a synthetic pigment introduced to Japan in the 1820s that enabled the deep, stable blue tones found throughout the series. The diagonal rows of tea plants establish perspectival depth while keeping Fuji as the organizing form above. The human scale of the workers against both the agricultural terrain and the distant mountain creates the characteristic spatial compression that distinguishes Hokusai's treatment of Fuji from prior landscape conventions.
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.
The Tea Plantation of Katakura in Suruga Province (Sunshu Katakura chaen no Fuji), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)" was created by Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎).
Yes — The Tea Plantation of Katakura in Suruga Province (Sunshu Katakura chaen no Fuji), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)" is part of the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series (print 44 of 46) by Katsushika Hokusai.
The Tea Plantation of Katakura in Suruga Province (Sunshu Katakura chaen no Fuji), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)" depicts landscapes and mount fuji.
The Tea Plantation of Katakura in Suruga Province (Sunshu Katakura chaen no Fuji), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)" measures 26.5 × 38.1 cm.