The fisherman Hakuryo and Mount Fuji
1770-1820
- Medium
- Color on paper
- Dimensions
- 86.3 × 28.1 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-127052
Sori's range of subjects, like Hokusai's, was broader than most artists of ukiyo-e. His work included classical literary subjects, such as Six Immortal Poets, and sympathetic renderings of humble peasants, like this fisherman posed in strict profile with the sacred Mount Fuji silhouetted in the background. The colored feather cloak worn by the fisherman alludes to a Japanese legend about the fish…
Provenance
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Registry history
- 1770-1820 — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art
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