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CATALOGUE 62. Fuji from Suidōbashi, by Katsushika Hokusai. (Smith 1998:63).

This watercraft, possibly a tsuchi-bune, appears to be piled high with sticks or rushes. A plank along the top of the cargo allows one of the two crewmen pictured to walk from end to end of the vessel to help pole it along the river. The perspective of this boat is skewed, as can be seen from the way in which the strakes meet the stempost. The port side suggests the strakes are flush, one on top of each other, but the small portion of the starboard side visible shows the strakes flaring outward. Smith further suggests that Hokusai is indifferent to topographical accuracy as the current of the Kanda River is depicted as running in the opposite direction of its true flow.