1760–1849
Katsushika Hokusai葛飾北斎
Hokusai worked for seventy years under some thirty names, and claimed that nothing he drew before seventy was worth counting. The Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, begun around his seventieth year, made the landscape print a major art and gave the world its most famous wave. He died at eighty-nine asking for ten more years — five, he said, and he could have become a true painter.
The workshop
His late landscapes were built on bero — the imported Prussian blue — and on carvers able to cut a foam-claw or a rain line without losing his hand. The publisher Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō) financed and issued the Fuji series; every impression is the work of four trades.
In the house
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave)Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1830–32
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)Fine Wind, Clear Morning (Red Fuji)Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1830–32
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)Thunderstorm Beneath the SummitKatsushika Hokusai · c. 1830–32
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)Kajikazawa in Kai ProvinceKatsushika Hokusai · c. 1830–32
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)Ejiri in Suruga ProvinceKatsushika Hokusai · c. 1830–32
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)Ushibori in Hitachi ProvinceKatsushika Hokusai · c. 1830–32
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)Mishima Pass in Kai ProvinceKatsushika Hokusai · c. 1830–32
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)Fuji View Field in Owari ProvinceKatsushika Hokusai · c. 1830–32
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)Tama River in Musashi ProvinceKatsushika Hokusai · c. 1830–32
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)Inume Pass in Kai ProvinceKatsushika Hokusai · c. 1830–32
Katsushika HokusaiPeonies and ButterflyKatsushika Hokusai · c. 1833–34
Katsushika HokusaiPoppiesKatsushika Hokusai · c. 1833–34