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. · 24 pictures

A woodblock-printed volume from 1835 by Katsushika Hokusai, published in Nagoya and Edo for a general Japanese readership, showing Mount Fuji from many places. The pictures are open double-page spreads in pale grey ink with fine linework, and a designer might take their use of small figures against large landscape, and the way Fuji is set off by foreground trees, rooftops and rope or bamboo structures.

Fuji, Mount (Japan)

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