Catalog record · 目録番号 51280
Sangi Takamura
Catalog note / 解説
Hokusai depicts a scene of women divers (ama) fishing for abalone (awabi). On the steep rock, three ama rest while several cheerful women dive in the ocean, their feet and arms emerging from the rolling waves. Although men also could be divers, traditionally it was women who dived, aided by men who waited for them in boats to gather their catch. In traditional style, the divers are naked to the waist. Hokusai interpreted the poem of Ono no Takamura (802-852), a personal counselor to the emperor. When Takamura's mission to China as ambassador failed because of a typhoon, he was criticized and exiled to one of the Eighty Islands. Two years later, he was pardoned and allowed to return to Kyoto…
Image record / 画像情報
AIC · c. 1835 - 1836 · aic
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