Hokusai's Fuji, 9780500026557
Hardcover
Fuji’s majesty revealed: Hokusai’s obsession with immortality through art.
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    416 pages

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    28 February 2024

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Summary

Hokusai: A Pilgrimage to Mount Fuji

A wonderfully illustrated exploration of one of Hokusai’s key motifs: Mount Fuji.

Hokusai’s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji and the three volumes of his subsequent One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji show his fascination with a single motif: Mount Fuji. Hokusai’s near-obsession with Fuji was part of his hankering after artistic immortality - in Buddhist and Daoist tradition, Fuji was thought to hold the secret…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780500026557
ISBN-10:0500026556
Author:Katsushika Hokusai, Kyoko Wada
Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint:Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:28 February 2024
Weight:700g
Dimensions:45mm x 211mm x 71mm
About The Author

Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Kyoko Wada is an art writer, critic and historian of Japanese culture.

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