Whaling Off Goto, Oceans of Wisdom By Katsushika Hokusai

This painting is a part of a progression of waterfalls and the cascade in Ono on Kisokai-road depicts a landscape with towering trees and water spilling over the rocks. It shows characteristics that Westerners gravitated towards during the nineteenth century. Japan has a fashion style where parts of paintings are often left blank and this influence is shown in the stripes of falling water, splash, trees, and structures that stick off the sides of the picture.