36 Views of Mount Fuji, Fujimi Fuji, Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese Print
Hokusai was very possessed with the tradition of immortality that was associated with the Mount Fuji that he decided to produce the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series that has several prints including the Fuji View Plain In Owari Province. The print depicts a man engaged in an activity, and the background has been produced in such a manner that it looks like a theatrical stage. He seems to have experimented a lot with the Eastern tradition and Western techniques in this painting.
Ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai (1960-1849) is was trying to depict different seasons, weathers, and conditions of the Mount Fuji series that was published by a Japanese publisher known as Nishimuraya Yohachi. The indisputable colour-print masterpiece of the Fuji View Plain in Owari Province artwork is outstanding. The artwork was done by Hokusai when he was in his seventies around the Edo Period between 1830 and 1831.
Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei, c. 1831) which includes the internationally iconic print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
Hokusai created the “Thirty-Six Views” both as a response to a domestic travel boom and as part of a personal obsession with Mount Fuji. It was this series, specifically The Great Wave print and Fine Wind, Clear Morning, that secured Hokusai’s fame both in Japan and overseas. As historian Richard Lane concludes, “Indeed, if there is one work that made Hokusai’s name, both in Japan and abroad, it must be this monumental print-series”. While Hokusai’s work prior to this series is certainly important, it was not until this series that he gained broad recognition.
All prints are made using archival art stocks and UV pigment inks to give up to 200 years life. Choose from unframed, framed and mounted and canvas panel options.
