The Essence of Hokusai's Art Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji Katsushika Hokusai was active in many fields, including actor paintings and illustrations for reading material. He also studied a wide range of Chinese and Western painting techniques, and his landscape paintings, which made full use of shading and perspective, eventually reached the height of his masterpiece, "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji," including the masterpiece "Fine Wind, Clear Morning" (Red Fuji). Hokusai's works had a great influence on Western artists, and he remains one of the most famous Japanese painters in the world. Hokusai "Thirty-Six Views of Mt.Fuji" The big waves off the coast of Kanagawa dwarf Mt. Fuji and the humans clinging in the small boats. Hokusai KATSUSHIKA – 1760-1849 Old Man Mad with Painting Hokusai was entirely posessed by the art of Ukiyo -e and worked until his death. His greatest masterpieces are the 46 pictures of the 36 views of Mt. Fuji. It took him 10 years to complete this series. Hokusai was a prolific artist with about 30,000 different prints in all. Like the great composer Beethoven, he was a restless man. He changed his residence 93 times during his lifetime – according to his own biography. All in excellent condition, never framed, hand printed on Echizen, traditional Japanese paper, with ink ble ed through to the reverse side. The outline of UNSODO Since the establishment(1891) in Kyoto, Japan UNSODO is a specialist of Japanese traditional woodcut printing. UNSODO can offer outstanding quality handmade woodcut print and book for appreciation. Each craftsmen inheriting a traditional technique for long time make paper and print it on the one piece of paper by hand and finishes it by Japanese bookbinding. Only UNSODO have been continued producing the woodblock printed book over 100 years.
