One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku Hyakkei shohen 富嶽百景初編) : [volume 1]

Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849 · 1834 · Nagoya: Eirakuya Tōshirō,永楽屋東四郎; Edo: Nishimura Yūzō,西村祐蔵. · 21 pictures

A woodblock-printed volume from 1834 by Katsushika Hokusai, published in Nagoya and Edo, presenting landscape views of Mount Fuji for a general Japanese readership. The pictures are paired double-page spreads in black ink on pale paper, with Fuji often small and distant behind everyday scenes. A designer might take the economical line work, the use of tiny figures to set scale, and the way a distant peak anchors a crowded foreground.

Fuji, Mount (Japan)

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