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One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei 富嶽百景) : [volume 3]

Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849 · 1849 · Nagoya: Eirakuya Tōshirō 永楽屋東四郎 and more · 14 pictures

Fugaku hyakkei volume three is a woodblock-printed sketchbook by Katsushika Hokusai, published in Nagoya in 1849 by Eirakuya Tōshirō for general readers of Edo-period Japan. Its double-page spreads show Mount Fuji seen across rural and everyday scenes, rendered in clean black outline with grey tonal washes. A designer could take from them the simple, repeated device of a distant conical peak framed by foreground details such as fields, rooftops, and figures.

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