The Floating World

Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Sazai Hall at the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats

五百らかん寺さざゐどう · Gohyaku Rakanji Sazaidō

Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1830–32

それは何か

Visitors crowd the balcony of the Sazai Hall at the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats in Edo, pointing and gazing across the plain to Fuji.

なぜ重要か

Hokusai turns the visitors themselves into the subject: the series watching people look at its mountain.

注目すべき点

The balcony’s floorboards run in sharp perspective toward the mountain, and almost every figure faces the same way.

Half the pleasure of a view is watching other people take it in.

記録

作者
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760–1849)
シリーズ
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)
制作年
c. 1830–32
版元
Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō)
技法
woodblock print; ink and color on paper
出典
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · JP1335

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