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Nakahara in the Sagami Province (Sōshū Nakahara) from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei), approx 1830–1831

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Japanese Woodblock Prints: Hokusai

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Emperor Tenchi (Tenchi tennō) from the series One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), approx. 1835–1836

Designmuseum Denmark presents Hokusai in a collection of Japanese Woodblock Prints.

Designmuseum Denmark’s collections include 40 woodblock prints by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, who lived from 1760 to 1849 during the Edo period (1603-1868). Over the last century of this period, the woodblock print evolved from being hand-coloured, single-colour impressions to prints featuring as many as ten colours.

Hokusai is best known for his landscape prints, including The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), part of his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjũrokkei). The series dates from the 1830s, a period often regarded as the golden age of Japanese woodblock printing.

Credits:

Top photo: Nakahara in Sagami Province (Sōshū Nakahara) from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei), 1830–1831.

Left-aligned photo: Emperor Tenchi (Tenchi Tennō) from the series One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets, Told by a Nurse (Hyakunin Isshu Uba Ga Etoki), ca. 1835–1836.