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Traveler Inscribing a Temple Pillar by Katsushika Hokusai — VisualArtsDB

Traveler Inscribing a Temple Pillar

Traveler Inscribing a Temple Pillar

Katsushika Hokusai

1825–1835

Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 7 x 29.2 cm (2 3/4 x 11 1/2 in.)
Genre: print
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art

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Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

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Pillar prints, or hashira-e (柱絵), are long and narrow Japanese woodblock prints originally intended to decorate wooden pillars.

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