Fugaku hyakkei (One hundred views of Mount Fuji) vol. 1

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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Fugaku hyakkei (One hundred views of Mount Fuji) vol. 1
Woodblock-printed illustraed book; ink on paper; embossed paper covers with printed falcon-feather title slips; artist's signature Hokusai Iitsu aratame gakyo rojin Manji hitsu (drawn by the former Hokusai Iitsu changing his name to Manji, the old man crazy about drawing at 75); block cut by Egawa Tomekichi, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudo) and others; dated March 1834
fukurotojibon (pouch binding) hanshibon: 8 7/8 x 6 1/8 in. (22.5 x 15.6 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Among the many publications in English that address One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji, Hokusai’s masterpiece of book illustration, see the following for cataloguing, images and commentary: Henry Smith, Hokusai: One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (New York: Braziller, 1988); Roger S. Keyes, Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan (The New York Public Library in association with The University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2006), cat. no. 54 (notes on page 286 give complete cataloguing and edition details); British Museum curatorial comments to accession number 1979,0305,0.454.1, accessible online; Timothy Clark, ed., Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave (The British Museum; Thames and Hudson, 2017); and Timothy Clark “One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji” PDF accessible online.

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