Traveler Inscribing a Temple Pillar

Cleveland Museum of Art

Traveler Inscribing a Temple Pillar

Katsushika Hokusai

Date
c. 1830 or early 1830s
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Japanese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

Pillar prints, or hashira-e (柱絵), are long and narrow Japanese woodblock prints originally intended to decorate wooden pillars.

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