A woodblock print from the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series. This view entitled The Barrel-maker of Fujimihara by Katsushika Hokusai. The Barrel-maker depicts a tiny aged man kneeling inside his latest creation, a large open ended barrel. In the foreground are his worn wooden mallets and barrel making materials while in the background lays a green landscape beyond the sun scorched rice fields and further still the far distant peek of the tiny snow capped Mount Fuji. The repetitive use of circles in the large barrel narrates this otherwise mundane scene. The barrel-maker, with his gaze fixated on his work and the beauty of natural world behind him.
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