One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei 富嶽百景) : [volume 2]

Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849 · 1835 · Nagoya: Eirakuya Tōshirō 永楽屋東四郎 and more · 21 pictures

Volume two of Hokusai's One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji, a woodblock-printed Japanese sketchbook issued in 1835 by the Nagoya publisher Eirakuya Tōshirō for a general popular audience. The spreads show Mount Fuji seen across daily scenes: travellers on mountain paths, farmers working fields, pine branches framing the peak, and figures climbing rocky slopes. A designer can take from them the compositional habit of placing a distant mountain behind close foreground motifs, along with bold, clean ink linework and the use of framing elements like trees and rock.

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