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157 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√ x
6¿ in. (22.5 x 15.6 cm.)

$10,000-15,000

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.