Work Record
Class [controlled]: • prints and drawings  • Asian art
*Work Type [link]: • color woodcuts
*Title: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji: First Series
Title: First Series: Mt. Fuji Views  Title Type: alternate
Title: Fugaku sanjurokkei Title Type: alternate
*Creator Display: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849); published by Nishimura Eijudo (Japanese, 19th century)
*Role [link]: printmaker  [link]: Hokusai, Katsushika
*Role [link]: publisher  [link]: Nishimura Eijudo
*Creation Date: 1827-1837  [controlled]: • Earliest: 1827  • Latest: 1837
*Subject [links]: • seascapes  • Mount Fuji (Chubu, Japan)  • ocean  • genre scenes  • meisho-e
Culture [link]: Japanese
*Current Location [link]: not applicable
*Measurements: 46 prints, average plate size: 24 x 37 cm (9 1/2 x 14 5/8 inches)
[controlled]: Extent: items  Value: 46  Type: count  ||  Qualifier [controlled]: average plate size  • Value: 24  Unit: cm  Type: height  |  • Value: 37  Unit: cm  Type: width
*Materials and Techniques: woodcuts, polychrome ink and color on paper
Material [links]: • ink  • color (pigment)  • paper  Technique [links]: • woodcut
Description: Despite the title, this series actually comprises 46 prints total. Hokusai produced two other sequential series of views.

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