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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849) KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Two women and a child on a beach Young girl dancing at a nobleman's mansion
Woodblock print, signed Gakyojin Hokusai ga, privately issued, Woodblock print, signed Gakyojin Hokusai ga, privately issued circa
framed and glazed 1802-4, framed and glazed
Ebankiri surimono: 7Ω x 19¡ in. (19.1 x 49.2 cm.) Ebankiri surimono: 15æ x 29Ω in. (40 x 75 cm.) (including frame)
$4,000-6,000 $8,000-10,000

A scene in a nobleman's mansion with a young girl performing by
candlelight. A man is watching the performance seated to the left in
front of a standing screen (tsuitate) decorated with a crane in flight near
Mount Fuji and minogame on rocks beside pine trees and bamboo.
An orchestra seated behind a bamboo curtain behind play various
instruments and a group of women enjoy the performance from
another room to the right partially concealed by bamboo curtains.
The same print is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston (accession no. 21.7873) and the Chazen Museum of Art
(accession no. 1980.2334).