Japanese Landscape Prints
(from 1st Nov 2009 until 25th Apr 2010)View the striking mountains, rivers, and cities of Japan in the woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige.
Katsushika Hokusai 's views of Mount Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai (1769-1849) was the first great designer of landscape prints. Before him, most print designers created images of beautiful women or kabuki actors. Then, in the 1820s and 1830s, Hokusai produced his ‘The Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji’. This series showed the sacred mountain from different viewpoints, during different seasons and at different times of day. With its simple colour schemes and bold compositions it was stylistically ground-breaking, combining elements of Japanese, Chinese and Western painting. It was so successful that he produced ten extra prints (bringing the total to 46) and an illustrated book showing ‘One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji’.
A Snowy Morning at Koishikawa (EAX.4218)
Ushibori, Hitachi Province (EAX.4220)
Fuji from Kanaya on the Tōkaidō Road (EAX.4221)
Sekiya Villages on the Sumida River (EAX.4682)
Pilgrims at Kasuga Taisha Shrine (EAX.5361)
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