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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Fugaku hyakkei (One hundred views of Mount Fuji)
Woodblock-printed illustrated book; 3 volumes; vols. 1
and 2 pink embossed paper covers with printed falcon-
feather title slips; vol. 3 orange red paper cover with printed
title slip; block cutters Egawa Tomekichi (vols. 1, 2) and
Egawa Sentaro (vol. 3); published in Nagoya by Eirakuya
Toshiro (Tohekido) and in Edo by Kadomaruya Jinsuke,
Nishimuraya Yuzo and Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudo)
and others, vols. 1, 2; published in Nagoya by Eirakuya
Toshiro (Tohekido) and others, vol. 3; artist’s signature Saki
no 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 [vol. 1] and 76 [vol. 2]);
preface by Ryutei Tanehiko (1783-1842)
Fukurotojibon (pouch binding) hanshibon: 8√ x 6¿ in. (22.5
x 15.6 cm.) each approx. (3)
$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE:
Albert Maroni (1852-1923) Collection, Paris
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.