36 Views of Mount Fuji, Under Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa, Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese Print

Katsushika Hokusai’s Under Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa (Fukagawa Mannen-bashi shita), is a woodcut on paper produced for the famed—and historically significant—book Thirty-Six Views of Fuji. The print was produced around 1830 when Hokusai was well into his seventies, and is a landmark of Japanese print culture.

The print is completed with various fishing and boat scenes underneath, which invoke the agrarian and mercantile setting of early nineteenth-century Fukagawa, a district of Tokyo. Beneath the bridge in the distance, Mount Fuji, the iconic symbol of Japan, can be seen with its snow-covered peak. Fuji has long been a subject of Japanese cultural significance, and Hokusai would produce numerous such prints outside of his Thirty-Six Views, which have gone on to achieve significance in their own right as reflective of Japanese art.

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.

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