36 Views of Mount Fuji, The Fuji from Kanaya on the Tokaido, Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese Print
The Fuji from Kanaya on the Tōkaidō or Tōkaidō Kanaya no Fuji, is one of the prints from the famous series of Katsushika Hokusai’s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji Fugaku sanjūrokkei.
In the painting Hukosai depicted travelers crossing the Ōi River at Kanaya on the Tōkaidō highway. He arranges individuals with palanquins in a unique rhythmic style in the swift waves. Hukosai utilizes the monochromatic Mount Fuji to make the colours play in a turbulent manner as they challenge each other with several lines of the Fuji.
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.
