Collection: Fugaku Hyakkei - One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji

The One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku Hyakkei, circa 1834-1835) are 102 prints in three shades of gray, among the most esteemed works of the artistic maturity of Katsushika Hokusai. Created after the age of seventy, this collection expresses the most intimate vision of the sacred mountain. In the work The Fuji from the Sea (Kaijo no Fuji), for example, Hokusai revisits the theme of the wave with a renewed philosophical depth: the crest of the wave, lifted by the wind, transforms into a flock of plovers, while the gaze reveals Mount Fuji as the only fixed point in the universe. The panel represents the final evolution of the subject that made him famous with The Great Wave (Kanagawa-oki Nami Ura) from the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei, circa 1830-1831): here the dialogue is reserved exclusively for wind, water, and the sacred mountain.