Carp Ascending a Waterfall
Keisai Eisen
1830–1839
- Medium
- color woodblock print
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 72.4 x 24.2 cm (28 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
About
In Asian lore the carp is associated with good fortune and perseverance. Although the carp lives primarily in quiet waters, its symbolic meanings have led to a Japanese design convention of showing the fish arching upward, often mounting waterfalls, as in this print.
![No. 31: View of Lake Suwa from Shiojiri Pass (Sanjuichi: Shiojiri toge Suwa no kosui chobo), from the series "[Sixty-nine Stations of the] Kisokaido"](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/6bcc29c9-84da-a43c-c655-bec2e7817b84/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
