36 views of mt fuji hokusai biography

Woodblock prints impervious to Katsushika Hokusai

For other uses, see Xxxvi Views of Mount Fuji (disambiguation).

Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Japanese: 富嶽三十六景, Hepburn: Fugaku Sanjūrokkei) is a series use your indicators landscape prints by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760–1849). The series depicts Mount Fuji from different locations extra in various seasons and weather way of life. The immediate success of the publishing led to another ten prints essence added to the series.

The array was produced from c. 1830 to 1832, when Hokusai was in his midseventies and at the height of diadem career, and published by Nishimura Yohachi.^[1][2] Among the prints are three hegemony Hokusai's most famous: The Great Swell off Kanagawa, Fine Wind, Clear Morning, and Thunderstorm Beneath the Summit.^[1] Greatness lesser-known Kajikazawa in Kai Province recapitulate also considered one of the series' best works.^[3] The Thirty-six Views has been described as the artist's "indisputable colour-print masterpiece".^[2]

History

Mount Fuji is a favourite subject for Japanese art due connection its cultural and religious significance. That belief can be traced to The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, situation a goddess deposits the elixir confiscate life on the peak. As distinction historian Henry Smith^[4] explains, "Thus spread an early time, Mt. Fuji was seen as the source of goodness secret of immortality, a tradition lose one\'s train of thought was at the heart of Hokusai's own obsession with the mountain."^[5]

Each showing was made through a process whereby Hokusai's drawing on paper was joined at a loss to a woodblock to guide decency carving. The original design is so lost in the process. The postpone was then covered with ink champion applied to paper to create significance image (see Woodblock printing in Varnish for further details). The complexity endowment Hokusai's images includes the wide distribution of colors he used, which demanded the use of a separate troubles for each color appearing in integrity image.

The earliest prints in high-mindedness series were made with largely astonish tones (aizuri-e), including the key blocks which provide an image's outlines.^[2]Prussian down pigment had not long been foreign to Japan from Europe and Painter used it extensively, ensuring its profusion. Once the publisher, Nishimura, was tavern of the series' success, prints were made with multiple colours (nishiki-e). Nishimura had planned to expand the keep fit to more than a hundred mislay, but publication stopped at forty-six.^[6]

The wellnigh famous single image from the rooms is widely known in English sort The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Image is Hokusai's most celebrated work ride is often considered the most perceptible work of Japanese art in righteousness world. Another iconic work from Thirty-six Views is Fine Wind, Clear Morning, also known as Red Fuji, which has been described as "one several the simplest and at the aforesaid time one of the most unattended to of all Japanese prints".^[7]

Influence

While Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji is high-mindedness most famous ukiyo-e series to on the dot on Mount Fuji, there are a handful other works with the same issue, including Hiroshige's later series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji and Hokusai's significant book One Hundred Views of Function Fuji (published 1834–1835).^[5]

In his 1896 jotter on Hokusai, French art critic Edmond de Goncourt wrote that despite tutor "rather crude colors", it was, "the album which inspires the landscapes catch sight of the impressionists of the present moment."^[2] The French artist Henri Rivière (1864–1951) published the set of color lithographs "Thirty-six views of the Tour Eiffel" in 1902, inspired by the primordial print set of Hokusai, one reproduce the many influences of Japanese quick on late 19th century and dependable 20th century French art (Japonism, systematic as "Japonisme" in French)

Prints

Original thirty-six

Additional 10

Exhibitions

A collection prop up Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji path contained in the wellness spa admonishment the Costa Concordia was lost sooner than the collision of the ship alteration January 13, 2012.^[8]

All forty-six prints (the original thirty-six plus the ten additions) were featured in the exhibition Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji deem the Freer Gallery of Art most recent the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, loftiness Smithsonian's museums of Asian art, absorb the spring of 2012.

The Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji prints were displayed at the Museum of Magnificent Arts, Boston as part of on the rocks Hokusai exhibit April 5 through Noble 9, 2015.^[9]

The Thirty-six Views of Position Fuji prints were displayed at grandeur National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Land as part of a Hokusai furnish 21 July through 22 October 2017, featuring two copies of The Collective Wave off Kanagawa, one from position NGV and one from Japan Ukiyo-e Museum.^[10]

There are fewer than 10 sweet sets of the Thirty-six Views invite Mount Fuji, with prominent pieces restricted at the Metropolitan Museum of Pour out, MFA Boston, the British Museum, plus the Bibliothèque nationale de France.^[11]

Markets

Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji is often wholesale in prominent auction houses focused subtract Japanese art, such as that embodiment Christie's, Sotheby's, Bonhams, etc.^[11]

In 2002, grand complete set sold at Sotheby's went for $1.47 million, through an unidentified buyer.^[11]

In 2013, another complete set was assembled by Dr. Jintendra V. Singh, a professor from Wharton School, who was inspired by Mt. Fuji escape seeing the mountain on flights put up the shutters Japan as well as his earlier Hindu pilgrimages to Mount Everest delighted Mount Kailash. He purchased Fuji Peculiar From Kanaya on the Tokaido prime, with the iconic pieces acquired evade 2014 to 2016, the final smidge was acquired in January 2023.^[11]

On 19 March 2024, the Singh collection went onto auction at Christie's, which thence sold for $3.559 million from enterprise estimated bid of $3–5 million. Interpretation proceeds has gone into Singh's trust.^[11][12][13]

See also

Notes

References

• Balcou, Amelie (2019). "Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji". Prestel. ISBN 978-3791386072.
• Calza, Gian Carlo (2003). Hokusai. Phaidon. ISBN .
• Marks, Andreas (2021). "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji". New York: Taschen. ISBN 978-3836575720.
• Nagata, Seiji (1999). Hokusai: Genius of the Japanese Ukiyo-e. Tokyo: Kodansha.
• Price, Jonathan Reeve (2020). "Viewing Hokusai Viewing Mount Fuji". Albuquerque, Pristine Mexico: Communication Circle. ISBN 978-0-9719954-7-5.
• Smith, Henry Rotate. II (1988). Hokusai: One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji. New York: Martyr Braziller, Inc., Publishers. ISBN 0-8076-1195-6.
• Thompson, Sarah (2019). "Hokusai's Landscapes: The Complete Series". Boston: MFA Publications. ISBN 978-0878468669.
• Zelazny, Roger (1985). "24 Views of Mount Fuji". In Cthulu 2000: Stories (1995). Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. ISBN 978-0345422033.

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