Hiratsuka
by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)

	Artist:	Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
	Title:	Hiratsuka
	Series:	53 Stations of the Tokaido
	Date of first edition?:	Not set
	Publisher (first edition)?:	Not Set
	Publisher (this edition)?:	Not Set
	Medium (first edition):	Woodblock
	Medium (this edition):	Woodblock
	Format (first edition):	Not Set
	Format (this edition):	Not Set
	DB artwork code:	28520
	Notes (first edition)?:
	Notes (this edition)?:	The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies: Hiratsuka, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido" by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) This woman and her male traveling companion stop to look at a water bird flying up from the marshes along the road. While there are human figures in Hokusai's most famous landscape prints, such as the "Great Wave" print or the "Red Mt. Fuji", they play almost no role in the scene presented. Here, in a relatively early print by Hokusai, we can see that the central role is taken by human figures and their surrounding environment.