Skip to main content
Artist/Maker
Katsushika Hokusai
(Japanese, 1760 - 1849)
Date1835
MediumWoodblock print
DimensionsSheet: 8 3/4 × 10 1/2 in. (22.2 × 26.7 cm)
Mount: 10 7/8 × 14 13/16 in. (27.6 × 37.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Franklin A. Sciacca
Object number2018.8.1
Not on view
DescriptionHokusai Katsushika (Japanese, 1760-1849) was a prolific and well-known Edo period printmaker, whose prints (among others) inspired the French avantgarde at the end of the 19th century. This print is part of a series entitled Fugaku hyakkei (One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji). The first volume of this series was published in 1834 and is considered to be one of the world’s most important illustrated books. Hokusai created drawings for the series, which were interpreted into woodblocks by the artist’s studio. The second volume (of which is this plate 57) was published in 1835 and the third in 1849 (though growing scholarly consensus holds that the key - or outline - blocks for this volume were already cut by 1835), around the time of the artist’s death. The poet depicted in this page is thought to be Yamabe no Akahito (active 724-736), whose best-known verse celebrates Fuji.
Collections
Additional Details
Provenance
2018: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Franklin A. Sciacca;
1977 - 2018: Franklin A. Sciacca, by purchase from Ronin Gallery, New York, NY.
1977 - 2018: Franklin A. Sciacca, by purchase from Ronin Gallery, New York, NY.
Signature
Not signed.
Inscribed
"AEJ" on mount at left lower margin in pencil; " "Bumpen no Fuji" (Fuji of the Warrior)" on mount at at right lower margin in pencil; "775" on mount verso at lower left corner in pencil. "Ma15" [15 circled] on mount verso at lower right corner in pencil.
Katsushika Hokusai
Date: c. 1830-1832
Medium: Color woodblock print
Object number: 1996.15.7
Jean-François Millet
Date: c. 1868
Medium: Graphite on paper
Object number: 2015.3.3
John James Audubon
Date: published 1832
Medium: Engraving and aquatint with hand-coloring
Object number: 1985.20
Teisai Hokuba
Date: c. 1830
Medium: Ink and mineral pigments on silk
Object number: 1985.47
Henry Moore
Date: 1969 (published 1970)
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1988.21
Hendrick Goltzius
Date: 1592
Medium: Engraving
Object number: 1992.56
Marsden Hartley
Date: c. 1933-34
Medium: Oil on cardboard
Object number: 1986.18
Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels
Date: 1709
Medium: Engraving
Object number: 1994.68
Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels
Date: 1709
Medium: Engraving
Object number: 1994.71