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Hokusai's series, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjvroku kei), is one of the most famous in the history of Japanese prints. Initially conceived as a set of thirty-six images, the series was so popular that forty-six designs were published. In this print, showing Mount Fuji from the mountains of Totomi, the activities of common people occupy center stage. The sacred mountain appears in the distance, framed by the "A" support securing a large timber as two carpenters saw planks and another sharpens his saw under a straw lean-to. Smoke from a nearby fire is delicately engraved and printed in this fine early impression of a design in which the predominant tones are blue and gray.
- Published References
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- Gian Carlo Calza. Hokusai. Exh. cat. London and New York. V. 35.19.
- Ann Yonemura, Nagata Seiji, Kobayashi Tadashi, Asano Shugo, Timothy Clark, Naito Masatoshi. Hokusai: Volume Two. Exh. cat. Washington, 2006. cat. 99, p. 82.
- Ann Yonemura. Hokusai: Volume One. Exh. cat. Washington, 2006. cat. 119, p. 184.
- Ann Yonemura, et al. Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints from the Anne van Biema Collection. Seattle and Washington. cat. 119, pp. 292-293.
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- Japanese Art
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