Surimono: The Lover in the Snow / Katsushika Hokusai
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1948/1.152
- Title
- Surimono: The Lover in the Snow
- Artist
- Katsushika Hokusai
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Artist Life Dates
- 1760-1849
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1817-1849
- Object Creation Place
- Asia
- Japan
- Creation Place 1
- Asia
- Creation Place 2
- Japan
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
- Style/Group/Movement
- ukiyo e
- Inscription
- Signed: Sakino sori Hokusai ga
- Verses by Kotowaza Hayamichi and Shakuyaku Tei
- Dimensions
- 12.4 cm x 15.7 cm (4 7/8 in. x 6 3/16 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- color print
- Physical Description
- The print depicts a figure in black walking in the snow with an umbrella. The snow covers the road, the well and the trees. Inscriptions of two poems appear on the upper right-hand corner, and the artist's signature can be found on the bottom edge of the print.
- Subject Matter
- Snow scene with a figure carrying an umbrella.
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- figures (representations)
- poems
- snow
- trees
- umbrellas and parasols
- winter
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- costume
- costume accessories
- costume accessories carried
- descriptors
- document genres
- document genres by form
- document genres for literary works
- earth sciences concepts
- image-making processes and techniques
- information forms
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- plants
- precipitation
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- scientific concepts
- seasons
- settlements and landscapes
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- weather and related phenomena
- weather-related phenomena
- woody plants
- writing (processes)
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 913 x 715
- File Size
- 93 KB
- Record
- 1948/1.152
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1948-sl-1.152/1948_1.152.jpg
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"Surimono: The Lover in the Snow; Katsushika Hokusai." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1948-sl-1.152/1948_1.152.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
