A pair of white, blue, pink, and black cranes, one with wing extended, perch on a wide, knotty, snow-covered pine branch.

Ukiyo-e

Cranes on snow-covered pine

Katsushika Hokusai

artist Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Japanese, 1760-1849

date c. 1834

medium Color woodblock print; vertical nagaban

origin Japan

dimensions 52.4 × 23.5 cm

credit line Clarence Buckingham Collection

hall 38 Ukiyo-e

rights public domain (CC0)

Art Institute of Chicago Full image

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A color woodblock print of a large crashing wave, looms over two narrow boats full of people. Mt Fuji in the background. There is a faint peach colored sky.

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