Traveler Inscribing a Temple Pillar
Cleveland Museum of Art

Traveler Inscribing a Temple Pillar

Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849) · c. 1830 or early 1830s

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

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

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