Hokusai Museum x Pagong Kyoto
Hokusai Museum x Pagong Kyoto
Katsushika Hokusai’s “Masculine Wave”
In a special collaboration with the Hokusai Museum in Obuse, Hokusai's masterpiece “Masculine Wave'' was replicated at Pagong using the dye method Kyoto-Yuzen.
-About-
In 1842, at the age of 83, Hokusai left Tokyo to live in Obuse, Nagano at the invitation of a local wealthy merchant, Kozan Takai. In Obuse, he received the patronage of Kozan and was given “Hekiken,” which would become his painting studio.
The relationship between the two was so close that they called each other "sir" and "sir." In an extremely favorable environment, Hokusai, in his later years, had the freedom to create large-scale hand-painted paintings, instead of wood-block prints, which he is most world-renown for.
At the age of 86, at the request of Kozan, Hokusai painted the ceilings of the town’s festival floats, “Otokoro” or “Masculine Wave”, and “Onnaro”, “Feminine Wave.”
This is the second time that Katsushika Hokusai's work has been expressed as an Aloha shirt pattern. In 2017, the dynamic waves depicted in “The Great Wave”, a woodblock print from the famous series “Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji” was also given permission to replicate.
The inner ceiling view of one of two festival floats painted by Hokusai.
Katsushika Hokusai’s “Masculine Wave”
It requires 14 screens to replicate “Masculine Wave” authentically. The depth of the waves is expressed by layering different shades of blue in 10 of the 14 screens.
Please take a look if you like.
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