Series : One Hundred Views of Fuji, Fugaku Hyakkei
Technique: nishikie, woodcuts in two shades of gray.
Format: hanshinbon koban diptych (about 183x253 mm)
Signatures : Zen Hokusai Iitsu aratame Gakyorojin Manji
Artist's seal : Fuji no Yama
Dates : engraved between 1834 – 1836, impressed between 1850 and 1870
Engravers: Egawa Tomekichi and Tsentaro
Publisher: Katano Toshiro.
Splendid proof with good contrasts, in the third edition from the original woodcuts. Printed on Japan paper, in excellent condition, with clean edges all around beyond the marginal line.
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Taiseki-ji, built at the southeast base of the mountain, is the major temple of the Shoshu branch of the Nichiren sect of Buddhism.
Nichiren (1222-1282), founder of the homonymous sect, preached a return to the primitive essence of Buddhism by synthesizing it in three major aspects: adoration, honzon ; the law, daimoku ; the moral, kaidan .
Hokusai himself apparently belonged to this sect.