THEY ARE ON opposite sides of the Earth, but both Mount Diablo and Mount Fuji have served as muses for artists for centuries. Countless works of art feature Japan’s Mount Fuji, the country’s ...

Nippon.com greets 2012 with this reprinted article from Japan Echo on Mount Fuji, ... set of prints bound in book form. And Fuji appears in a ... of Art) Hokusai. Dragon Flying over Mount Fuji.

Many 19th-century prints of Mt. Fuji contributed to Europe's japonisme trend. ... Mt. Fuji: Sacred Peak and Focus of Faith and Art: Fujisan, Sacred Place and Source of Artistic Inspiration.

Katsushika Hokusai, “Fine Wind, Clear Weather,” also known as Red Fuji, from the series “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji,” about 1830–31.

A professor’s 30-year dream of assembling a complete set of “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji,” the pinnacle of the artist’s career, leads to an auction.

Through stylised landscapes, scenes of everyday life and fantastical visions, Hokusai laid the foundations for a modern graphic touch still found in contemporary art far beyond the Nipponese shores.

The Art Institute notes that "The Great Wave" is not a painting but a commercially-produced print—mass-produced to the tune of thousands and continuing to be printed even after Hokusai died ...

Hokusai’s prints didn’t find their way to the West until after the artist’s death in 1849. During his lifetime Japan was still subject to sakoku, the longstanding policy that forbade ...

The world’s most powerful passport just got a little bit more beautiful. Japan will start issuing passports featuring art by ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai for people applying from February 4.

In this way, through Mount Fuji, this volume traces a history of Hokusai’s oeuvre overall,” says a publisher’s statement. A Place Apart, The Artist’s Studio 1400 to 1900 , Caroline Chapman ...

Keio Plaza Hotel (KPH), one of Japan’s most prestigious international hotels located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, will hold “Mt. Fuji Art and Culture Fair” whi ...