7016 - Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print, Katsushika Hokusai, around 1820

Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print, Katsushika Hokusai, around 1820 Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock print, attributed to Katsushika Hokusai, 1760-1849, Edo period, probably around 1820. Inscribed on the reverse "ORIGINAL Japanese Woodblock Print HOKUSAI Farmer on Ox Diptych". Depicting a peasant scene with an ox and a person sitting on its back. The ox is richly decorated, including flowers on its head, and is being led through a hilly landscape. The background depicts trees and a landscape with delicate lines and rose-colored accents in the sky. This is probably a sheet or one half of a diptych. Framed behind glass in a black wooden frame with dark passepartout. Age-related condition with paper browning, foxing, centerfold, slight creases and traces of printing, fading, partial rubbing and minor soiling. Frame with traces of use. Dimensions incl. frame approx. 26 x 32.5 cm.