Tōkaidō Kanaya no Fuji (Fuji from Kanaya on the Tōkaidō Road), from the series Fugaku sanjūrokkei (Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji)

Tōkaidō Kanaya no Fuji (Fuji from Kanaya on the Tōkaidō Road), from the series Fugaku sanjūrokkei (Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji)

Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)

publisher: Nishimura Yohachi (Japanese, active mid-19th century)

ca. 1831

Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)

color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e

image/sheet: 9 3/4 in x 15 3/16 in

publisher's mark: 永壽堂, printed in red relief within square cartouche, bottom right Transliteration (Translation): Eijudō ([seal of the publisher Nishimuraya Yohachi 西村屋与八]) Language: Japanese Description: Edo publisher, firm Eijudō 永寿堂 active c.1751-1860.

censor's mark: 極, printed in red relief within circular cartouche, lower right Transliteration (Translation): kiwame (approval) Language: Japanese

series title; title: 冨嶽三十六景 / 東海道金谷ノ不二, printed in black ink within double rectangular cartouche, upper right Transliteration (Translation): Fugaku sanjūrokkei / Tōkaidō Kanaya no Fuji (thirty-six views of Mount Fuji / Fuji from Kanaya on the Tōkaidō) Language: Japanese

signature: 前北斎為一筆, printed in black ink, upper right Transliteration (Translation): zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu (brushed [by] Iitsu, formerly Hokusai) Language: Japanese

The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection

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public domain

Edo

Japanese woodblock prints

relief printing

relief prints

The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection

woodcuts