Katsushika Hokusai · One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji · Two sheets - Japan - Edo Period (1600-1868)






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Two original Edo-period woodblock-printed book illustrations by Katsushika Hokusai from Fugaku hyakkei, depicting Mount Fuji.
Description from the seller
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎, 1760–1849), signing as Gakyō Rōjin Manji
Book: Fugaku hyakkei 富嶽百景 (One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji)
Technique: Woodblock printed book illustration, sumi ink with grey tone on paper
Date: Edo period; volume 2 first published 1835, volume 3 c. 1840s
Format: Two separate single pages from the bound volumes, each approx. 22.5 × 15.7 cm
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Condition
Excellent impression and very good colors; Some minor trimming and loss to the right sheet! Please check the images!
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About the print
Fugaku hyakkei is a picture book in three volumes that Hokusai designed in his seventies, after the success of his print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. He signed it "Gakyō Rōjin Manji", the "old man mad about painting". The first two volumes were published in 1834 and 1835 by Nishimuraya Yohachi, who had also issued the Thirty-six Views. The third volume followed some years later from Eirakuya Tōshirō of Nagoya, the publisher of the Hokusai Manga. The book contains 102 designs, each showing Mount Fuji in a different setting, from everyday scenes to legends and myth.
For Hokusai, Fuji was more than a landscape. It was linked to the idea of immortality, which mattered to an artist who hoped to live past a hundred. The scholar Jack Hillier called the One Hundred Views Hokusai's masterwork.
Seller's Story
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎, 1760–1849), signing as Gakyō Rōjin Manji
Book: Fugaku hyakkei 富嶽百景 (One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji)
Technique: Woodblock printed book illustration, sumi ink with grey tone on paper
Date: Edo period; volume 2 first published 1835, volume 3 c. 1840s
Format: Two separate single pages from the bound volumes, each approx. 22.5 × 15.7 cm
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Condition
Excellent impression and very good colors; Some minor trimming and loss to the right sheet! Please check the images!
_______________________________________________________
About the print
Fugaku hyakkei is a picture book in three volumes that Hokusai designed in his seventies, after the success of his print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. He signed it "Gakyō Rōjin Manji", the "old man mad about painting". The first two volumes were published in 1834 and 1835 by Nishimuraya Yohachi, who had also issued the Thirty-six Views. The third volume followed some years later from Eirakuya Tōshirō of Nagoya, the publisher of the Hokusai Manga. The book contains 102 designs, each showing Mount Fuji in a different setting, from everyday scenes to legends and myth.
For Hokusai, Fuji was more than a landscape. It was linked to the idea of immortality, which mattered to an artist who hoped to live past a hundred. The scholar Jack Hillier called the One Hundred Views Hokusai's masterwork.
