Series : One Hundred Views of Fuji, Fugaku Hyakkei
Technique: nishikie, woodcuts in two shades of gray.
Format: hanshinbon koban (about 183x123 mm)
Signatures : Zen Hokusai Iitsu aratame Gakyorojin Manji
Artist's seal : Fuji no Yama
Dates : engraved between 1834 – 1836, impressed between 1850 and 1870
Engravers: Egawa Tomekichi and Tsentaro
Publisher: Katano Toshiro.
Splendid proof with good contrasts, in the third edition from the original woodcuts. Printed on Japan paper, in excellent condition, with clean edges all around beyond the marginal line.
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The Hagoromo legend tells of Hakuryo, a Miho fisherman in Suruga Bay, who finds a feathered dress lost by an angel.
Hakuryo is represented here celebrating the find with a cup of sake in which he sees the reflection of Fuji.
The legend inspired the text of a famous play of the No theater, with the same title, Hagoromo , the robe of feathers.