CATALOGUE 148. Omori, by Katsushika Hokusai. (Smith 1998:199).
Two boats are depicted as harvesting seaweed. Smith notes that neither boat was actually used to harvest seaweed in Omori, and certainly the bezai-sen pictured in the foreground is much too large to cut the seaweed. The smaller boat appears to be an oshiokuri, which is atypical of the type of vessel used for seaweed harvesting (beka-bune). The bezai-sen has a decorated stempost and a visible goshaku.
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