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Artist
KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Country of Origin
Japan
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Dated
c. 1831
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Description / Expertise
Title: Turban-Shell Tower, Five-Hundred Rakan Temple; Gohyaku Rakanji Sazaidô
Subject: Visitors stand on the terrace admiring the view, as a boy points at the snow-capped Mt. Fuji
Series: The Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji; Fugaku sanjûrokkei
Signed: zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu
Date: ca. 1831
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô)
Format: Ôban yoko-e
This print from Hokusai's most celebrated series is in exceptionally fine condition,
full-sized with sharp lines. The subject is illustrated in numerous publications
including: Gian Carlo Calza, Hokusai (London: Phaidon, 2003) pl. v.35.23,
p. 276; M. Forrer, Hokusai, Prints and Drawings (London: Royal Academy
of Arts, 1991), pl. 22; R. Lane, Images of the Floating World: The Japanese
Print (New York: G.P Putnam’s Sons, 1978), pl. 390, p. 263; T. Kobayashi,
Hokusai: Bridging East and West (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1998)
pl. 9, p. 35 (cover image); and, S. Nagata, Dai Hokusai ten: Edo ga unda
sekai no eshi (Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1993) pl. 173, p. 117.
