{"product_id":"hokusai-katsushika-cento-vedute-del-monte-fuji-n-97-1834","title":"HOKUSAI KATSUSHIKA, One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji No. 97, 1834","description":"\u003cp\u003eA splendid proof with good contrasts, attributable to the Eirakuya Tōshirō edition (mid-19th century) from the original blocks of the Egawa workshop. Printed on Japanese paper, in excellent condition, with original untrimmed margins beyond the marginal line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnnotated bibliography\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eH.D. Smith II, \u003cem\u003eHokusai: One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji\u003c\/em\u003e, New York: George Braziller, 1988\u003cbr\u003eM. Forrer, \u003cem\u003eHokusai\u003c\/em\u003e, London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1991\u003cbr\u003eM. Forrer, \u003cem\u003eHokusai\u003c\/em\u003e, New York: Rizzoli, 1988\u003cbr\u003eM. Forrer, \u003cem\u003eHokusai: Prints and Drawings\u003c\/em\u003e, Munich: Prestel, 1991\u003cbr\u003eG.C. Calza, \u003cem\u003eHokusai: il vecchio pazzo per la pittura\u003c\/em\u003e, Milan 1999-2000, London 2003\u003cbr\u003eG.C. Calza, \u003cem\u003eHokusai: le cento vedute del Fuji\u003c\/em\u003e, Milan: Editoriale Nuova, 1982\u003cbr\u003eJ. Hillier, \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration\u003c\/em\u003e, London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1980\u003cbr\u003eJ. Hillier, L. Smith, \u003cem\u003eJapanese Prints: 300 Years of Albums and Books\u003c\/em\u003e, London: British Museum Publications, 1980\u003cbr\u003eR.S. Keyes, \u003cem\u003eEhon: The Artist and the Book in Japan\u003c\/em\u003e, New York: George Braziller, 2006\u003cbr\u003eT. Clark (ed.), \u003cem\u003eHokusai: Beyond the Great Wave\u003c\/em\u003e, London: British Museum Press, 2017\u003cbr\u003eM. Forrer, W.R. van Gulik, \u003cem\u003eHokusai and His School: Paintings, Drawings and Illustrated Books\u003c\/em\u003e, Leiden: Society for Japanese Arts and Crafts, 1991\u003cbr\u003eThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/78803\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/78803\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCommentary\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe drawing shows only the terminal part of the roof of the Rakan temple, popularly known as Sazaidō, recognizable by its flame-shaped finial, typical of Buddhist architecture. This elaborate ornament, common to pagodas, is composed of rings that allude to the nine heavens of the Buddhist universe and culminates in symbolic flames. The temple was built in 1695 in Honjō, on the eastern outskirts of Edo, by a monk of the Ōbaku sect of Zen Buddhism, and was dedicated to the five hundred great disciples of Buddha, the Rakan. Although the complex did not have a true pagoda, it included two unusual structures: a large hall with over five hundred wooden statues of the Rakan and a three-story building with a spiral plan, inside which a symbolic pilgrimage took place through images representing one hundred Kannon temples of Japan, up to a panoramic viewing platform at the top.\u003cbr\u003eSome earlier views of the temple, such as that by Kitao Masayoshi in \u003cem\u003eEhon Azuma kagami\u003c\/em\u003e (1787), show more elaborate decorations, perhaps referring to an earlier version of the building. Hokusai had also drawn the building previously, with an ornament of intermediate complexity (a similar print, \u003cem\u003eGoyaku Rakanji Sazaidō\u003c\/em\u003e, appears in the series \u003cem\u003eThirty-six Views of Mount Fuji\u003c\/em\u003e; while a detailed drawing of the finial is present in \u003cem\u003eHokusai Manga\u003c\/em\u003e vol. XI of 1833), but in the present image, he clearly pushed towards greater elaboration. In Masayoshi's view, a large crane nest also appears on the roof of the Rakan Hall, a detail that might explain the direction of the line of flying storks depicted by Hokusai. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Galleria Elena Salamon - Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Stampe Giapponesi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52893375889755,"sku":null,"price":180.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0405\/8110\/3766\/files\/HokusaiOneHundredViewsofMountFuji97.jpg?v=1777459793","url":"https:\/\/www.elenasalamon.com\/en\/products\/hokusai-katsushika-cento-vedute-del-monte-fuji-n-97-1834","provider":"Galleria Elena Salamon - Arte Moderna","version":"1.0","type":"link"}