no kakinomoto hitomaro hokusai

no kakinomoto hitomaro hokusaiHokusai offers a visual interpretation of a poem by Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, depicting fishermen laboriously hauling their long net up a steep mountain. Wisps of smoke rise from a fire, turning from red to white. In a house in the background, a man watches the fishermen work tirelessly. The link between the poem and the scene is subtle. It seems that Hokusai finds a correlation between the hard work of the fishermen, the long, dragging tail of a

snow-capped mountains in the background add a grandiose dimension to the scene

These stylistic elements

embodies the revolutionary ideal and the fight for freedom

combined with touches of red

creating a sense of movement

creating a sense of movement and life

while the vast

As a genre scene

In this way

This post-impressionist work is dominated by a vast field of golden wheat that stretches to the horizon

providing an interesting contrast to the predominant yellow

for its part