"Hokusai's Waterfalls" Hokusai no Taki

Edo zumi hyaku shoku series (A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo)

Woodblock, 2006.

Image size: Oban - 15 x 11 in.

Signed and numbered in pencil with the series title cartouche in the upper right margin.

Edition: 100.

Description: Binnie integrates three different compositions from the series A Journey to the Waterfalls in All the Provinces, designed about 1832 by the famous artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), including “Amida Waterfall on the Kisokaidō Road.” Binnie removed the yellow-green hills and bluffs that surround the falls in Hokusai’s original and kept just the Prussian blue surroundings derived from “Horse-Washing Falls” and “Kirifuri Waterfall.” The artist’s barrel-shaped seal is a playful allusion to the Western trope of plunging over a waterfall in a barrel.

In the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Condition: Mint.