The complexity of Hokusai's images includes the wide range of colors he used, which required the use of a separate block for each color appearing in the image. The block was then covered with ink and applied to paper to create the image (see Woodblock printing in Japan for further details). The original design is therefore lost in the process.
Fuji was seen as the source of the secret of immortality, a tradition that was at the heart of Hokusai's own obsession with the mountain." Įach image was made through a process whereby Hokusai's drawing on paper was glued to a woodblock to guide the carving.
As the historian Henry Smith explains, "Thus from an early time, Mt. This belief can be traced to The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, where a goddess deposits the elixir of life on the peak. Mount Fuji is a popular subject for Japanese art due to its cultural and religious significance. The Thirty-six Views has been described as the artist's "indisputable colour-print masterpiece". The lesser-known Kajikazawa in Kai Province is also considered one of the series' best works. Among the prints are three of Hokusai's most famous: The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Fine Wind, Clear Morning, and Thunderstorm Beneath the Summit. 1830 to 1832, when Hokusai was in his seventies and at the height of his career, and published by Nishimura Yohachi. The immediate success of the publication led to another ten prints being added to the series. The series depicts Mount Fuji from different locations and in various seasons and weather conditions.
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji ( Japanese: 富嶽三十六景, Hepburn: Fugaku Sanjūrokkei ) is a series of landscape prints by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760–1849). The Great Wave off Kanagawa, the best known print in the series (20th century reprint)
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