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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849) KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Courtesans, their kamuro and apprentices on a balcony Peasant's family processing rice following a harvest
overlooking a moonlit river Woodblock print, signed Hokusai, privately issued, circa 1796-1819,
Woodblock print, signed Sori aratame Hokusai ga, privately issued, circa framed and glazed
1799, framed and glazed Ebankiri surimono: 8¿ x 22¿ in. (20.6 x 56.2 cm.)
Ebankiri surimono: 8¿ x 21¡ in. (20.6 x 54.3 cm.)
$5,000-8,000
$8,000-10,000

In a rural setting a man unloads a bale of dried rice for threshing
Two high-ranking courtesans, each attended by a geisha and shinzo from a bamboo drying rack behind. The rice is being milled by
(young apprentice geisha), view an autumn moon from the balcony the woman and boy to the right using a milling stone and on the
of a fashionable teahouse. Remnants of an evening meal are beside a left a woman and young man are seiving and winnowing using a
shamisen box with a plectrum on top. A folding screen bears a poem winnowing basket and fan in order to separate the rice grains from
which has been translated by The Cleveland Museum of Art: the chaff and husks.

What liveliness! Geisha, shinzo, and jesters
fill the room, all guests of the moon.

The same print is in the collection of The British Museum,
museum number 1945,0210,0.7 and The Cleveland Museum of Art
(go to: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1943.4).