Album of Sketches by Katsushika Hokusai and His Disciples 19th century Katsushika Hokusai Japanese The brush-inscribed text between the two roosters explains the odd dynamic of this work: A drawing of a real roostercoming to fight the woodenrooster made by Suminawa.(Suminawa ga tsukereru ki noniwatori makoto no niwatorikitaritekeru zu) This unsigned drawing is virtually identical to a woodblock-printed illustration published in the popular novel The Tale of the Craftsman of Hida (Hida no takumi monogatari, 1809), authored by Rokujuen Meshimori (1753–1830) and illustrated by Hokusai. The episod
Album of Sketches by Katsushika Hokusai and His Disciples 19th century Katsushika Hokusai Japanese The brush-inscribed text between the two roosters explains the odd dynamic of this work: A drawing of a real roostercoming to fight the woodenrooster made by Suminawa.(Suminawa ga tsukereru ki noniwatori makoto no niwatorikitaritekeru zu) This unsigned drawing is virtually identical to a woodblock-printed illustration published in the popular novel The Tale of the Craftsman of Hida (Hida no takumi monogatari, 1809), authored by Rokujuen Meshimori (1753–1830) and illustrated by Hokusai. The episode of the book represented here relates the story of the master carpenter Suminawa of Hida, who created a carved bird so lifelike that another bird mistook it for a real one. It is assumed that this is a preparatory drawing from which the hanshita-e (block drawing) was Album of Sketches by Katsushika Hokusai and His Disciples 40011
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