Sazai Hall at the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats
c. 1830–1832 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · The Art Institute of Chicago
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849)
- Year
- c. 1830–1832
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Original size
- 25.7 × 37.4 cm
- Collection
- The Art Institute of Chicago (impression 1925.3263; many other impressions exist)
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Visitors crowd the wooden balcony of a temple hall, leaning on the rail and pointing out toward a small white Fuji on the horizon, while a man rests with his bundle at the right. Below the balcony a wide plain stretches to the distant mountain, and the floorboards run in strong lines toward it. The print belongs to Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, published around 1830–1832 by Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō). The Sazai Hall at the Rakanji temple of the Five Hundred Arhats, east of the Sumida, was a multi-storey hall whose upper gallery was a famous lookout. Hokusai uses the converging lines of the floor and rail to lead the eye to the mountain; impressions vary in colour and condition.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Warm wooden yellows and soft blue sky with a small Fuji, for a hallway, home office or living room at 36×24 in natural wood. It pairs with Hiroshige's The Sazaidō Hall at the Five Hundred Rakan Temple, the same lookout a generation later.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Ukiyo-e painting
- Era
- 19th century (c. 1830–1832)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Palette
- cornflower blue
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, hallway or entryway, home office, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, travelers, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 36×24. Prints at 18×12, 24×16, 36×24 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard; 36×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — natural wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
