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Traveler Inscribing a Temple Pillar
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About this work
Pillar prints, or hashira-e (柱絵), are long and narrow Japanese woodblock prints originally intended to decorate wooden pillars.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineTraveler Inscribing a Temple Pillar, c. 1830 or early 1830s. Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849). Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; sheet: 7 x 29.2 cm (2 3/4 x 11 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of James Parmelee, 1940.995
