Katsushika Hokusai : A Tour of Japanese Waterfalls

Around 1832, fresh from his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji and The Great Wave, Hokusai went chasing water. A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri), sometimes called A Tour of Japanese Waterfalls, gathers eight famous falls, most of them sacred places on pilgrims’ routes, and turns each into living, moving pattern in deep imported blues. Travellers and pilgrims shrink to specks beside them. He signed every sheet “Iitsu, formerly Hokusai”. Here are five of the eight.

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Kirifuri Waterfall at Mount Kurokami, Shimotsuke Province, c.1832
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Ono Waterfall on the Kisokaidō Road, c.1832
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The Amida Falls in the Far Reaches of the Kisokaidō Road, c.1832
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The Waterfall Where Yoshitsune Washed His Horse at Yoshino, Yamato Province, c.1832
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Yōrō Waterfall in Mino Province, c.1832
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Katsushika Hokusai : A Tour of Japanese Waterfalls

Kirifuri Waterfall at Mount Kurokami, Shimotsuke Province, c.1832

Ono Waterfall on the Kisokaidō Road, c.1832

The Amida Falls in the Far Reaches of the Kisokaidō Road, c.1832

The Waterfall Where Yoshitsune Washed His Horse at Yoshino, Yamato Province, c.1832

Yōrō Waterfall in Mino Province, c.1832