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Katsushika Hokusai 'Samurai Cavalry Charge' Woodblock, Manga Volume 9, 19th Century
$545.00 AUD
Description
Two mounted warriors gallop through falling arrows while foot soldiers with pikes crowd the foreground in this double-page spread from Volume 9 (Kyū-hen) of Katsushika Hokusai's Manga, the multi-volume sketchbook series that made his name beyond landscape work.
Hokusai is best known for The Great Wave, but the Manga shows the range that earned him his reputation as a master of the Ukiyo-e tradition, here applied to motion and battle rather than nature. The volume was published by Tōheki-dō, the trading name of publisher Eirakuya Tōshirō, whose Nagoya firm printed and reprinted the Manga across the nineteenth century.
Authenticated by the Japanese Gallery, Kensington Church Street, London, which retains its original certification label confirming the artist, volume and publisher. Genuinely 19th-century, Edo to Meiji era printing.
Presented in a black gallery frame, float-mounted to show the edges of the antique washi paper.
Available to view in our Torquay studio.
