One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku Hyakkei nihen 富嶽百景二編) : [volume 2]

Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849 · 1835 · Nagoya: Eirakuya Tōshirō, 永楽屋東四郎; Edo: Nishimura Yūzō, 西村祐蔵. · 19 pictures

This is a woodblock-printed volume of landscape prints by Katsushika Hokusai, published in 1835 in Nagoya and Edo, Japan, for a general audience of art buyers and travellers. Its double-page spreads show Mount Fuji seen across daily scenes of farming, travel, and work, and a designer could take from them the strong pairing of simple ink outlines with open sky, and the way a single distant mountain anchors each composition.

Fuji, Mount (Japan)

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