HOKUSAI

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)started landscape printing. Hokusai was a pupil of Katsukawa Shunsho and first used the name Shunro. In his early years, he focused mainly on actors and women. However, he also studied and experimented various types of manners or schools, such as Kano, Tosa and Korin, and he even studied Chinese and Western styles. Eventually, he created his unique type of art and made a great amount of masterpieces. Among his great works, Fugaku sanju-rokkei, or Thirty-six Views, which were published in the Tenpo era (1830-1843), are most well-known. The famous set depicted Mt. Fuji, a highest mountain in Japan, in a quite unprecedented way.


Works from Hokusai's Thirty-six Views


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