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Hokusai, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji

Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景, Fugaku Sanjūrokkei) is an ukiyo-e (浮世絵, “pictures of the floating world”) series of large, colour woodblock prints created between 1826 and 1833 by the Japanese master of the brush and skilled draftsman, Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). This series marked the beginning of Hokusai’s courtship of the great mountain regarded as the source of the secret of immortality, and his effort to capture Fuji from a variety of different places and distances, in different seasons, weather conditions and telling context. The first 36 were included in the original publication and, due to their popularity, ten more were added after the original publication. Hokusai drew each of the images on paper, or, more precisely, onto “washi”, the Japanese paper, and then he glued them onto a plank of wood, usually cherry wood, using the outlines given by the drawings for cutting the wood block. Hokusai followed the Nishiki-e (錦絵, “brocade pictures”) method of using multiple blocks for separate portions of the image, allowing him to use a wide range of colours, and to achieve incredibly complex and detailed images. All images are faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art that are in the public domain. Original thirty-six 1:32 1. The Great Wave Off Kanagawa 1:37 2. South Wind, Clear Sky (also known as Red Fuji) 1:45 3. Rainstorm Beneath the Summit 1:53 4. Under Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa 2:01 5. Sundai, Edo 2:09 6. The Blue …