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Edo prints

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	Design:	Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
	Title:	Mount Fuji in clear weather
	Series title:	Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji
	Size:	26.0 x 38.1 cm (ōban)
	Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks
	Photography:	Theo Janssen

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Enlargement

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Originally published around 1830 by publisher Nishimuraya Yohachi.

Publisher’s seal of this reprint in right margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
内	uchi	inside
田	ta	rice field	Publisher:
版	han	edition	Uchida

Artist’s signature in left print area:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
北	hoku	north
斎	sai	room	Drawn by
改	arata(meru)	alter	Hokusai,
為	i	change	changing
一	itsu	one	his name to Iitsu
筆	hitsu	writing brush	(meaning ‘‘One year old again’’)

Series and print title in cartouche in top left of the print:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
富	fu	wealth
嶽	gaku	peak
三	san	three
十	jū	ten	Thirty-six
六	roku	six	views of
景	kei	view	Mount Fuji
凱	gai	victory song
風	fū	wind	South wind
快	kai	pleasant	in
晴	sei	weather	fine weather

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References

• Dalon, Laure, Nagata, Seiji, Negishi, Mika, Takemura, Makoto, Okuda, Atsuko (2014). Hokusai. Paris, Grand Palais, Galeries Nationales, 1er octobre 2014 - 18 janvier 2015. Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux.

• Forrer, Matthi (1991). Hokusai, Prints and Drawings. Munich: Prestel Verlag and Royal Academy of Arts, London.

• Forrer, Matthi (1994). Japanese Prints (2 volumes in slipcase). Vol. 10-11, Genève: Collections Baur.

• Forrer, Matthi (2010). Hokusai. Munich: Prestel Verlag.

• Kobayashi, Tadashi (1997). Ukiyo-e. An introduction to Japanese woodblock prints. Tokyo: Kodansha International.

• Nagata, Seiji (1999). Hokusai. Genius of the Japanese Ukiyo-e. Tokyo: Kodansha International.

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Provenance: Uchida Art Co