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ID: 700000093
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000093
Record Type: Conceptual
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji: First Series (color woodcuts (prints); Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849); Published by Eijud...; between 1826 and 1833; )
Note: Series that depicts Mount Fuji in different seasons and weather conditions from a variety of vantage points. It comprises 46 prints, rather than the "36" noted in the traditional title; an additional 10 prints were added after the original publication. Hokusai produced two series of Views of Mt. Fuji. This is the first series.
Titles:
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji: First Series (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)
富嶽三十六景 (C,U,Japanese,U,U)
Fugaku sanjurokkei (C,U,Japanese (transliterated)-P,U,U)
First Series: Mt. Fuji Views (C,U,undetermined,U,U)
Catalog Level: series
Work Types:
color woodcuts (prints) [300041412] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, relief prints, woodcuts (prints))

Classifications:
prints (preferred)

Creation Date: between 1826 and 1833

Creator Display:
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849); Published by Eijudo Japan [preferred,VP]
publisher Nishimura Eijudo (Japanese publishing house, 18th-19th centuries) [500312961]
printmaker Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese printmaker, painter, 1760-1849) [500060426]
Locations:
Not Applicable:
Display Materials: woodcuts, polychrome ink and color on paper
woodcut (process) [300053296]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, relief printing processes)
ink [300015012]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)
color (pigment) [300264870]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>)
paper (fiber product) [300014109]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)
color woodcuts (prints) [300041412]
.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, relief prints, woodcuts (prints))

Dimensions: 36 prints, average plate size: 24 x 37 cm
Cultures:
Japanese (preferred)

General Subject:
landscapes (preferred,description)
seascapes (description)
human figures (description)

Specific Subjects:
Fuji, Mount [1107685]
.....(Honshu (island), Japan (nation), Asia (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Conceptual Works
.......... Conceptual Works by class: for movable works
Sources and Contributors:
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji: First Series........ [VP]
........ Bowie, Drawings of Hokusai (1964)
........ CDWA online (1995-)
富嶽三十六景........ [VP]
........ CDWA online (1995-)
Fugaku sanjurokkei........ [VP]
........ CDWA online (1995-)
First Series: Mt. Fuji Views........ [VP]
........ Exhibition of Hokusai's Masterpieces (1962)
Subject: ....... [VP]
Note:
English ..... [VP]
..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
..... CDWA online (1995-)
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