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Katsushika Hokusai: Sunset across the Ryogoku bridge from the bank of the Sumida river at Onmaya-gashi   wikidata:Q18173407  reasonator:Q18173407
Artist
Katsushika Hokusai  (1760–1849)    wikidata:Q5586  q:en:Hokusai
 
Katsushika Hokusai
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Birth name: Tokitarō (時太郎)
Description Japanese painter, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death 31 October 1760  Edit this at Wikidata 10 May 1849  Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Edo, today Tokyo Edo, today Tokyo
Work period 1808  Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Edo, today Tokyo, Nagoya, Uraga
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creator QS:P170,Q5586
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Title
Japanese:
『御厩川岸より両国橋夕陽見』
- Ommayagashi yori ryōgoku-bashi yūhi mi

Sunset across the Ryōgoku bridge from the bank of the Sumida River at Onmayagashi
title QS:P1476,ja:"御厩川岸より両国橋夕陽見"
label QS:Lja,"御厩川岸より両国橋夕陽見"
label QS:Lfr,"Contempation du coucher de soleil à travers le pont de Ryogoku depuis la rive de la Sumida à Onmayagashi"
label QS:Len,"Sunset across the Ryōgoku bridge from the bank of the Sumida River at Onmayagashi"
label QS:Lde,"Blick auf den Sonnenuntergang über der Ryogoku-Brücke von der Ufermauer in Onmaya"
Series title Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji  Edit this at Wikidata
Object type print / woodcut print  Edit this at Wikidata
Genre landscape art  Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Part of the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, no. 12 .
Date First publication: circa 1830
date QS:P571,+1830-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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This edition: circa 1930
date QS:P571,+1930-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Medium woodblock color print
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Accession number
JP1331, JP2997 and JP2554 ( Metropolitan Museum of Art)  Edit this at Wikidata
Notes
English: Woodblock made ca. 1930 exactly the same way as they were made by artisans ca. 1830. The skill and the care are the same. There is a drawing or a copy of it coming from the artist. Then the woodcutter and the printer take over. Their skill varies. Hokusai once wrote to one of his editors that he was not happy with one of the woodcutters. In the case of the new cuts of the 36 views of the Fuji, only experts can distinguish the many versions - mainly by differences of the frame around the script
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