Katsushika Hokusai 富嶽三十六景

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Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景, Fugaku Sanjūrokkei) is a series of landscape prints by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760–1849).

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Katsushika Hokusai died ‪#‎onthisday‬ in 1849. Hokusai is one of the most famous Japanese artists, and a key figure of the ukiyo-e ('floating world') school 🌊

These prints all come from his series Fugaku sanjūrokkei ('Thirty-six Views of Mt Fuji'

富嶽三十六景) made around 1829–1832. The major factor in establishing landscape as a new genre of ukiyo-e print was probably the sudden availability in the later 1820s of cheap Berlin blue. This strong, brilliant pigment could be used for water and sky, and would not fade. Hokusai used this new blue pigment to revolutionary effect in this series.

ukiyo-e 

Pronunciation: /uːˌkiːjəʊˈeɪ/ 

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[MASS NOUN]

A school of Japanese art depicting subjects from everyday life, dominant in the 17th-19th centuries.

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Origin

Japanese, from ukiyo 'fleeting world' 浮世 + e 'picture'繪.