CATALOGUE 149. Fuji in the Evening Sun at Shimadagahana, by Katsushika Hokusai. (Smith 1998:102-3).
This image shows a fish weir or pier remnants in the foreground, with individuals with fishing rods taking advantage of the site. There are approximately eight smaller vessels on the opposite shore (possibly takase-bune, due to the masts that lie flat above the small “cabin” roofs). A vessel piled with an unidentifiable cargo is shown in the right foreground. A small hiyoke-bune sails behind the cargo ship. In the left background a fisherman deploys a yotsude-ami (four-armed net), from a small fishing vessel. Also see Cat. 19, Fuji Behind a Net and Cat. 17, Tone River in Shimosa Province, for similar fishing figures.
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