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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI. The Sumo Wrestlers Takaneyama Yoichiemon and Sendagawa Kichigoro

The Sumo Wrestlers Takaneyama Yoichiemon and Sendagawa Kichigoro. Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1760-1849 Tokyo (Edo)). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: H. 12 1/3 ( 30.6 cm; W. 5 3/32 in. (12.9 cm). Date: ca. 1790-93.
Hokusai occasionally treated the sumo world in his prints. He returned to the subject briefly in the early 1790s after a decade-long absence. Here, the sumo wrestlers Wadagahara Jinshiro on the right and Kachozan Gorokichi on the left are locked together during a fight. They are depicted with thinner, more refined lines than in the artist's early sumo prints. The signature Shunro ga ("painted by Shunro") is one he used for a period before choosing his most familiar name, Hokusai.

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Author:

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)

Title:

The Sumo Wrestlers Takaneyama Yoichiemon and Sendagawa Kichigoro

Caption:

The Sumo Wrestlers Takaneyama Yoichiemon and Sendagawa Kichigoro. Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1760-1849 Tokyo (Edo)). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: H. 12 1/3 ( 30.6 cm; W. 5 3/32 in. (12.9 cm). Date: ca. 1790-93. Hokusai occasionally treated the sumo world in his prints. He returned to the subject briefly in the early 1790s after a decade-long absence. Here, the sumo wrestlers Wadagahara Jinshiro on the right and Kachozan Gorokichi on the left are locked together during a fight. They are depicted with thinner, more refined lines than in the artist's early sumo prints. The signature Shunro ga ("painted by Shunro") is one he used for a period before choosing his most familiar name, Hokusai.

Technique/material:

Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Period:

Edo period (1615-1868)

Museum:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Credit:

Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

Releases:

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Image size:

2146 x 4684 px | 28.8 MB

Print size:

18.2 x 39.7 cm | 7.2 x 15.6 in (300 dpi)

Keywords:

ASIA • ASIAN ART • EDO PERIOD (1615-1868) • HOKUSAI, KATSUSHIKA • INK • JAPAN • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA • PAPER • POLYCHROME WOODBLOCK PRINT; INK AND COLOR ON PAPER • PRINTING BLOCKS • PRINTS • RELIEF PRINTS • WOOD BLOCKS • WOODBLOCK PRINTS