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A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces · 16 / 31

Kiyotaki Kannon Waterfall at Sakanoshita on the Tōkaidō

東海道坂之下清滝観音（諸国瀧廻り）

  • Looking Up
  • Water
  • Figures
Kiyotaki Kannon Waterfall at Sakanoshita on the Tōkaidō — Hokusai woodblock landscape — Kiyotaki Kannon Waterfall at Sakanoshita on the Tōkaidō. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (public domain).
Katsushika Hokusai. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (public domain).

Kiyotaki Kannon Waterfall at Sakanoshita on the Tōkaidō. 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: 東海道坂之下清滝観音（諸国瀧廻り）.

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