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Collection Online as of December 24, 2025

Traveler Inscribing a Temple Pillar

c. 1830 or early 1830s

Katsushika Hokusai

(Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Sheet: 7 x 29.2 cm (2 3/4 x 11 1/2 in.)
Bequest of James Parmelee 1940.995
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Pillar prints, or hashira-e (柱絵), are long and narrow Japanese woodblock prints originally intended to decorate wooden pillars.
  • ?–1940
    James Parmelee [1855–1931], Cleveland, OH and Washington, DC, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1940–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Milliken, William M., Henry S. Francis, Howard Hollis, Gertrude Underhill, Silvia A. Wunderlich, and Nell G. Sill. “The Bequest of James Parmelee.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 28, no. 2 (February 1941): 15–31. www.jstor.org
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