One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei 富嶽百景) : [volume 1]

Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849 · 1834 · Nagoya: Eirakuya Tōshirō 永楽屋東四郎 and more · 19 pictures

Hokusai's Fugaku hyakkei is a woodblock-printed Japanese picture book of 1834, published in Nagoya by Eirakuya Tōshirō for a general readership of townspeople and travellers. Its double-page spreads show Mount Fuji as a distant landmark among rural scenes of farmers, travellers, bridges and mountain paths, drawn in fine black line with pale grey wash. A designer might borrow the economical line work, the placement of the mountain small against wide skies, and the clustered figures set at the lower edges of each spread.

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