Katsushika Hokusai · Tōryū no Fuji · Ascending Dragon ·...

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) Left sheet: Ashiro no Fuji 足代の不二 (Fuji with a Scaffold), from volume 3 Right sheet: Tōryū no Fuji 登龍の不二 (Fuji with an Ascending Dragon), from volume 2 Technique: Woodblock printed book illustration, sumi ink with grey tone on paper Date: Edo period; volume 2 first published 1835, volume 3 c. 1840s Publishers: Volume 2 by Nishimuraya Yohachi and partners (Edo); volume 3 by Eirakuya Tōshirō (Nagoya) Format: Two separate single pages from the bound volumes, each approx. 22.5 × 15.7 cm Condition Excellent impression and very good colors; Some minor trimming! 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.

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