Details
- Object type
Woodblock print
- Title
Self-Portrait as a Fisherman
- Artist/Maker
- Place Associated
Japan (place of manufacture)
- Date
circa 1835
- Materials
colour woodcut
- Dimensions
unframed: 216 mm x 216 mm
- Description
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This image of a fisherman is thought to be a self-portrait by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849). Hokusai is renowned for his landscape paintings and drawings for woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e (‘pictures of the floating world’). The early 1830s were a time of enormous creativity for him, including a print entitled ‘A Fisherman Standing on a Rocky Promontory at Kajikazawa in Kai Province’, as part of the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. There are verses at the top right of the print by Hokusai and his daughter, Katsushika Ōi (about 1800–1866). Hokusai’s artistic career spanned almost 70 years.
- Credit Line/Donor
Gifted by Sir William and Lady Burrell to the City of Glasgow, 1944
- Collection
Burrell Collection: Japanese Woodcuts
- ID Number
37.13
- Location
Burrell Collection