Mount Fuji has been an inspiration for many art pieces, but One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku Hyakkei) is one of the most famous ones. The artwork is by famed Japanese artist of the Edo era, Katsushika Hokusai. One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji consists of a collection of prints in one woodblock book. […]
While Great Wave of Kanagawa is the most famous work of Katsushika Hokusai and instantly recognisable, it is in his Dragon pictures that we see some of the most exquisite examples of the Ukiyo-e style of wood block printing and painting which flourished in Edo (modern day Tokyo) from the 17th to 19th centuries. Literally translated as “pictures of […]