Explore the Beauty of Japanese Fine Art
Explore the Beauty of Japanese Fine Art
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A high quality Giclee Print created in Australia of the famous Ao Fuji Blue Fuji by Hokusai. Titled “Gaifu Kaisei” (Fine Wind, Clear Morning) commonly known as “Ao Fuji”(Blue Mt. Fuji). Ao Fuji (Aizuriban) by Katushika Hokusai (1760-1849). From his series ‘Thirty six views of Mount Fuji’. Printed using Giclee Pigment Inks on machine made 110 gsm washi paper.
Originally published between 1831 and 1834, today only 7 of the original woodblock prints are identified worldwide. The woodblocks for this print currently reside at the Mogi Honke Museum.
Paper size 61 cm width and 43 cm height.
Print size 52.5 cm width and 34.5 cm height.
Shipping is via Australia Post with tracking and signature on delivery.
Please note we do not accept returns. Please review our images to ensure you are happy with this item prior to purchasing.
36 Views of Mount Fuji is the best known of Hokusai’s print series and is also considered his best work. Although called “36 views”, it actually consists of 46 designs. The artist worked on this series for nearly ten years before it’s publication in circa 1830.
Hokusai began as an apprentice at a woodcut print workshop at age 15. At 18 he became a pupil of Katsukawa Shunsho and took the name of Katsukawa Shunro. The early Hokusai prints were mainly portraits of actors and produced under the influence of Shunsho. He remained with Katsukawa Shunsho for 14 years and during that period he also studied with Yusen from the Kano school.
Hokusai had a driving passion for producing woodblock prints. He used the art name Gakyo-rojin, from 1834-1849 which also means old man mad with painting.
He wrote in his autobiography about himself:
“From the age of five I have had a mania for sketching the forms of things. From about the age of fifty I produced a number of designs, yet of all I drew prior to the age of seventy there is truly nothing of great note. At the age of seventy-two I finally apprehended something of the true quality of birds, animals, insects, fish and of the vital nature of grasses and trees. Therefore, at eighty I shall have made some progress, at ninety I shall have penetrated even further the deeper meaning of things, at one hundred I shall have become truly marvelous, and at one hundred and ten, each dot, each line shall surely possess a life of its own. I only beg that gentlemen of sufficiently long life take care to note the truth of my words.”
Hokusai was also one of the most prolific of all ukiyo-e artists producing more than 30,000 print designs in his lifetime.
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A high quality Giclee Print created in Australia of the famous Ao Fuji Blue Fuji by Hokusai. Titled “Gaifu Kaisei” (Fine Wind, Clear Morning) commonly known as “Ao Fuji”(Blue Mt. Fuji). Ao Fuji (Aizuriban) by Katushika Hokusai (1760-1849). From his series ‘Thirty six views of Mount Fuji’. Printed using Giclee Pigment Inks on machine made 110 gsm washi paper.
Originally published between 1831 and 1834, today only 7 of the original woodblock prints are identified worldwide. The woodblocks for this print currently reside at the Mogi Honke Museum.
Paper size 61 cm width and 43 cm height.
Print size 52.5 cm width and 34.5 cm height.
Shipping is via Australia Post with tracking and signature on delivery.
Please note we do not accept returns. Please review our images to ensure you are happy with this item prior to purchasing.
36 Views of Mount Fuji is the best known of Hokusai’s print series and is also considered his best work. Although called “36 views”, it actually consists of 46 designs. The artist worked on this series for nearly ten years before it’s publication in circa 1830.
Hokusai began as an apprentice at a woodcut print workshop at age 15. At 18 he became a pupil of Katsukawa Shunsho and took the name of Katsukawa Shunro. The early Hokusai prints were mainly portraits of actors and produced under the influence of Shunsho. He remained with Katsukawa Shunsho for 14 years and during that period he also studied with Yusen from the Kano school.
Hokusai had a driving passion for producing woodblock prints. He used the art name Gakyo-rojin, from 1834-1849 which also means old man mad with painting.
He wrote in his autobiography about himself:
“From the age of five I have had a mania for sketching the forms of things. From about the age of fifty I produced a number of designs, yet of all I drew prior to the age of seventy there is truly nothing of great note. At the age of seventy-two I finally apprehended something of the true quality of birds, animals, insects, fish and of the vital nature of grasses and trees. Therefore, at eighty I shall have made some progress, at ninety I shall have penetrated even further the deeper meaning of things, at one hundred I shall have become truly marvelous, and at one hundred and ten, each dot, each line shall surely possess a life of its own. I only beg that gentlemen of sufficiently long life take care to note the truth of my words.”
Hokusai was also one of the most prolific of all ukiyo-e artists producing more than 30,000 print designs in his lifetime.
