Tagonoura
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
Tagonoura — the bay at the foot of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture — was immortalized in an eighth-century Manyoshu poem as the place from which Fuji's snowfall could be seen drifting down. The bay's name had carried literary and artistic weight for over a millennium when Shotei composed this print, and his treatment negotiates between the location's topographic reality and its enormous cultural freight. The bay's curve, the fishing boats, and the mountain above them form a composition as inevitable as the poetic tradition it participated in.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Tagonoura was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
Tagonoura was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Tagonoura depicts landscapes, seascapes, and mount fuji.