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HOKUSAI
175
- The sun-goddess in her cave.
- View of the two banks of the Sumida, seen from a bridge; very broad sheet, about 1800.
- The Landscape with the 100 Bridges; very large.
- Fujiyama across the water. 1802, unsigned.
- The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido as a Sugoroku-game; large.
- Surveyor at work, 1848; large oblong.
- Representations of animals: eagle on perch beside a cherry-branch in blossom; two storks on a pine-branch under snow; two carp swimming up a waterfall; horses grazing; tortoises at the bottom of the sea.
Series:—
- The six Tamagawa; somewhat brutal.
- The same, with medallions.
- 3 sheets, evening landscapes with women promenading; small.
- Shika Shashinkio, poems, 10 large sheets, with excellent landscapes and figures.
- The Liukiu Islands, 8 sheets.
- 27 (?) sheets, the Hundred Poems; oblong, signed Hokusai Manji.
Surimonos:—
- A young merchant, 1793; on the back the programme of a summer concert.
- The Twelve Months typified by female figures.
- The Childhood of Characters in History.
- Large size: lobster and pine-branch, 1802; another without the branch; tea-house by the river, 1804; plum-branch in blossom, 1806; sempstresses, 1809; series of five sheets of shells, signed Gechi Rojin Jitsu.
Book-illustrations:—
- Yellow books (kibiyoshi), size 17 by 12½ cm., from 1780 to 1811 (see Goncourt, page 347 ff.). Among them the story of the Tongue-cut Sparrow, 1792, and the Paths of Riches and Poverty, 1793.
