Artworks

Mount Fuji and the Island of Enoshima, from Shichiri Beach

Artwork · Hokkei · 1821 · Japanese woodblock print · Chester Beatty Library

A surimono — a privately printed, small-format print for a New Year greeting — by Hokkei (1780–1850), the fishmonger who became Hokusai’s most distinguished pupil: a long sandy beach, waves embossed in the white water, a village of red-roofed houses and a pagoda under the cliffs of Enoshima, and Fuji almost invisible as an embossed white triangle. Enoshima’s dragon tamed by the goddess Benten made it a symbol for the year of the snake. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 291–292, fig. 333. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.