Sunrise at Susaki Point (New Year's Print) / Katsushika Hokusai
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- Accession Number
- 1954/1.472
- Title
- Sunrise at Susaki Point (New Year's Print)
- Artist
- Katsushika Hokusai
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Artist Life Dates
- 1760 - 1849
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1800-1820
- 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; surimono
- Inscription
- Printed signature of the artist: Gakyôjin Hokusai
- Dimensions
- 12.86 cm x 18.26 cm (5 1/16 in. x 7 3/16 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- color print
- Physical Description
- A geisha is shown strolling in the countryside, with her right hand over her forehead--as if looking into the distance--and a basket in her left hand. The backdrop is the rising sun-the give-away that this is a New Year’s print—seen over distant mountains. A poem lies on the left-hand side of the print.
- Subject Matter
- In the final decade of the eighteenth century, there was a severe wave of government censorship against any publications—image or text—that could be construed as political satire or as detrimental to public morals. At first this crackdown had a devastating impact on print publishers and artists, who found themselves in manacles if they attempted to continue their staple products of erotica and pin-up prints of courtesans and actors. They soon rebounded, however, with new formats and new themes. One outlet for artistic genius was the surimono, the privately commissioned print that could avoid the censor’s eye. Usually issued as New Year’s greetings by members of a poetry club or clique, surimono are small in scale and richly decorated with the highest quality pigments, including metallic shades of silver, gold, and copper.
- Katsushika Hokusai, who is best known in the West for his landscape prints of Mount Fuji, evokes here a quietly nostalgic scene of a geisha (itinerant musicians) strolling in the countryside. Her right hand rests over her forehead--as if looking into the distance--with a basket in her left hand. The backdrop is the rising sun-the give-away that this is a New Year’s print—seen over distant mountains. A poem lies on the left-hand side of the print.
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1097 x 759
- File Size
- 89 KB
- Record
- 1954/1.472
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"Sunrise at Susaki Point (New Year's Print); Katsushika Hokusai." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-1.472/1954_1.472.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 06, 2024.