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File: Katsushika Hokusai - Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji- The Great Wave Off the Coast of Kanagawa - Google Art Project.jpg
Each image was made through a process whereby Hokusai's drawing on paper was glued to a woodblock to guide the carving. The original design is therefore lost in the process. The block was then covered with ink and applied to paper to create the image (see Woodblock printing in Japan for further details). The complexity of Hokusai's images ...
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English: This print from Hokusai's last and unfinished series — One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each, as Explained by the Nurse —depicts a scene of travelers passing through a country village at dawn. On this print, the poem is transcribed in a cartouche at the upper right, along with the series title (translation below by Peter Morse):
Detail of the centre of the image. In the background is Mount Fuji in blue with a snow-capped peak. In the background is Mount Fuji and its snow-capped summit; [20] Mount Fuji is the central figure of the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, which depicts the mountain from different angles.
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Hokusai uses an abundance of color, in order to highlight the new and main theme: the falling water. [3] Besides using imported blue pigments, the artist also adds contrasting yellows, browns and greens to paint the surrounding forested mountains. Two highlights from the series are Hokusai's depictions of Kirifuri and Amida waterfalls.
A View of Mount Fuji Across Lake Suwa (Shinsu Suwako) is a woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai. It was produced as one of the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series which was published from c. 1830 to 1832 in the late Edo period. [1] The image depicts Lake Suwa from above with Mount Fuji barely visible in the distance ...