Fuji from Ommayagashi with Twilight over Ryogoku Bridge

A color woodblock print showing a long wooden bridge at dusk, with a small dark Mount Fuji rising far beyond the river. In the foreground, boatmen in a flat-bottomed boat steer across rippling blue water while a figure poles from a wooden landing on the left. The sky shades from dark blue to pale cream.

Artist

Katsushika Hokusai

Date

c. 1830/33

Medium

Color woodblock print; oban

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 1151 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection