The Back of Mount Fuji Seen from Minobu River (Minobugawa Urafuji), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)
Katsushika Hokusai
1830-33
Medium
Color woodblock print; ōban
Dimensions
24.6 × 36.4 cm (9 11/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
86735
About the Artist
Katsushika Hokusai · 1760–1849
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) stands as one of history's most influential artists, a Japanese master who revolutionized the ukiyo-e woodblock print tradition and profoundly shaped Western art. Born in the Katsushika district of Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to an artisan family, Hokusai lived through nearly nine decades of extraordinary creative evolution, adopting over thirty different artistic names t...