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Ukiyo-e Katsushika Hokusai "Fine Breezy Day"

Ukiyo-e Katsushika Hokusai "Fine Breezy Day"

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The set of "Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji" (Fugaku Sanjurokkei) is a magnificent work of Hokusai in his late years at about the beginning of the Tempo era (1830-1844).

It marks an epoch in his career in art, and is a monumental works in the history of Japanese landscape prints. On the part of Hokusai it was the culmination of his enduring efforts to master Japanese, Chinese, and Western art techniques, which he synthesized here within the realm of Eastern-style representation.

At the same time it was the first group of the Japanese prints in which the requirements of landscape art were truly realized. Recognized by everyone as the finest in this set, is the "Gaifu Kaisei" (literally meaning "Breeze of May and Bright Sky") reproduced here.

The composition consists solely of the three main elements without any superfluous addition: Mt. Fiji soaring high into the sky, with its ridges showing rhythmic undulation; the spacious wooded field at its foot, depicted symbolically by "lichen spots" method; and the sky that occupies almost half of the entire sight The various impressions we receive from the holy mountain are splendidly condensed here.

The peak, moved a little to the right of the center, displays its dynamic outline running obliquely across the canvas. The mountain, the spreading skirt and the sky are composed of simple color planes but are remarkably expressive of the effect of bulk, space and depth.

Behind the artist's Eastern-style linear presentation lies his mastery of rationalistic Western observation, while his full experience in analysis and synthesis of colors has resulted in the successful treatment of color values for stratified clouds.

Even a touch of plain-airism may be felt from the white clouds, afloat in the blue sky alive with fresh breeze of May. It is indeed a wonderfully accurate representation of the complex aspects of Nature, which is achieved through just necessary and sufficient lines and colors.

This print is popularly known, after the reddish brown color of the mountain, as the "Red Fuji". In certain regions near Mt. Fuji, the exposed surface of the mountain occasionally appears red with reflection of morning or evening glow. Some explain that Hokusai tried here to show this phenomenon.

Screen dimensions 26.0×38.5cm
Frame size 40.0×55.5cm
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