Hokusai Manga
Net-tender
Volume XII, 1878 (later) edition.  single page with full margins, image approx. 5" x 7".
A man calmly smokes while tending nets, oblivious of the large, sharp-beaked turtle eyeing him as it advances.  A print of soft grays with good detail in, for example, the pattern of the turtle's shell and the sasa bamboo-grass protruding through the snow.
 
 
 


Textiles | Woodblock & other prints | Folk arts | Ceramics
About | Contact | Index