Views of Mt. Fuji /
Kasushika Hokusai was one of the foremost ukiyo-e artists of his generation and his Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji one the best know series in all of Japanese woodblock printing. Mt. Fuji had and continues to have a mythical hold on the Japanese imagination, and Hokusai depicts the endless depth and v...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Mineola, New York :
Dover Publications,
2013.
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| Summary: | Kasushika Hokusai was one of the foremost ukiyo-e artists of his generation and his Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji one the best know series in all of Japanese woodblock printing. Mt. Fuji had and continues to have a mythical hold on the Japanese imagination, and Hokusai depicts the endless depth and variety the mountain conveys through its situation in landscape, season and time of day. This Dover book reprints the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series in color along with Hokusai's later black & white series, One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji. A must for all lovers of Japanese art and the woodblock prints of the floating world. |
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| Item Description: | This Dover edition, first published in 2013, is an a unabridged republication of One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji, originally published by Frederick Publications, New York, 1960, and all the plates from The Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji, originally published by Takamizawa Ukiyoe Co., Ltd., Tokyo, n.d. The Introduction found on pages 241-250, was reprinted from Hokusai's 36 Views of Mt. Fuji, originally published by Toto Shuppan Company, Ltd., Tokyo, 1959. |
| Physical Description: | 250 pages : illustrations (some colored) ; 28 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780486497587 (pbk.) 0486497585 |