Sazai Hall of the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats (Gohyaku Rakan-ji Sazaidō 五百らかん寺ささゐどう), from the series “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” (Fugaku sanjūrokkei 富嶽三十六景)
Sazai Hall of the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats (Gohyaku Rakan-ji Sazaidō 五百らかん寺ささゐどう), from the series “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” (Fugaku sanjūrokkei 富嶽三十六景)

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Sazai Hall of the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats (Gohyaku Rakan-ji Sazaidō 五百らかん寺ささゐどう), from the series “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” (Fugaku sanjūrokkei 富嶽三十六景),

ca. 1830–31 [Tenpō 1–2]

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, 1760–1849; born and died Tokyo, Japan
Published by Iseya Sanjirō 伊勢屋三次郎
Japanese
Edo period, 1603–1868
2011-56

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Title
Sazai Hall of the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats (Gohyaku Rakan-ji Sazaidō 五百らかん寺ささゐどう), from the series “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” (Fugaku sanjūrokkei 富嶽三十六景)
Dates

ca. 1830–31 [Tenpō 1–2]

Maker
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎
Published by Iseya Sanjirō 伊勢屋三次郎
Medium
Woodblock print (ōban yoko-e format); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
sheet: 26.1 x 38.5 cm. (10 1/4 x 15 3/16 in.) mat: 40.8 x 56 cm. (16 1/16 x 22 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund
Object Number
2011-56
Place Made

Asia, Japan

Signatures
signed: Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu 前北斎為一筆
Marks/Labels/Seals
Censor's seal: “Kiwame” 極, round relief Publisher seal: “Eijudō” 永寿寺, sq. relief
Description
This print depicts Fuji in the deep distance viewed from the veranda of the Five Hundred Rakan Temple, a famous Buddhist site in the city of Edo, and its veranda was situated to provide a perfect view of Fuji. Hokusai depicts the act of viewing itself: men, women, and children line up along the veranda's railing, their backs turned to us, intently gazing (and one pointing) at the small but instantly recognizable mountain in the center of the print. Some of the people are finely dressed in fashionable kimono, others in the more simple garb of pilgrims, showing the temple as a gathering spot for different sectors of Japanese society.
Culture
Japanese
Period
Edo (Japanese period)
Type
japanese printmaking styles, oban, woodblock prints, prints
Materials
oban, color, ink, paper
Techniques
woodcut (process)
Subject
figures (representations), views, men, porches, Buddhism, temples, women, blue, birds, social classes, mountains, children (people by age group)

–2011 Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art (New York, NY), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2011.

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