Fukagawa mannenbashi sita by Katsushika Hokusai Annick painterly illustration featuring three tropical

painterly illustration featuring three tropical animals rendered in City Art’s signature style of fluid line and organic abstraction

Bold geometric shapes dissolve into fluid

drawing the eye from the dense ink of the bird's body outward into stillness

luminous tangle of irises

The composition presents a central form surrounded by symbolic geometry: concave and convex shapes

Fukagawa mannenbashi sita by Katsushika Hokusai Annick painterly illustration featuring three tropicalUnder the Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa is one of Hokusai's Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji (c. 183032), framing the distant mountain through the wooden arch of a bridge in Edo's Fukagawa district. The composition plays the immediate, human scale of the bridge and passing boats against Fuji's quiet permanence in the background a favourite device Hokusai returned to throughout the series. As an archival fine art print, the crisp linework and subtle tonal