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A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces · 15 / 31

Kirifuri Waterfall at Kurokami Mountain in Shimotsuke

下野黒髪山きりふの滝（諸国瀧廻り）

  • Looking Up
  • Water
  • Mountain
Kirifuri Waterfall at Kurokami Mountain in Shimotsuke — Hokusai woodblock landscape — Kirifuri Waterfall at Kurokami Mountain in Shimotsuke. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (public domain).
Katsushika Hokusai. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (public domain).

Kirifuri Waterfall at Kurokami Mountain in Shimotsuke. Hokusai organizes landscape through viewpoint and form — compare this sheet with others in the same series.

Check viewpoint tags: bird’s-eye, looking up, distant, or from between the waves.

Follow how water, mountain, bridge, and figure forms divide the composition.

Extended Japanese viewing notes: 下野黒髪山きりふの滝（諸国瀧廻り）.

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