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Katsushika Hokusai: In the Mountains of Totomi   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Katsushika Hokusai  (1760–1849)  wikidata:Q5586 q:en:Hokusai
 
Katsushika Hokusai
Alternative names
Birth name: Tokitarō (時太郎)
Description Japanese painter, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death 31 October 1760 Edit this at Wikidata 10 May 1849 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Edo, today Tokyo Edo, today Tokyo
Work period 1808 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Edo, today Tokyo, Nagoya,Uraga
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q5586
Title
Japanese:
『遠江山中』
- Tōtōmi sanchu

In the Mountains of Totomi
title QS:P1476,ja:"遠江山中"
label QS:Lja,"遠江山中"
label QS:Lde,"In den Bergen von Totomi"
label QS:Len,"In the Mountains of Totomi"
label QS:Lfr,"Dans les montagnes de Totomi"
Description
Part of the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, no. 38 , 2nd additional woodcut.
Date First publication: circa 1830
date QS:P571,+1830-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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This edition: circa 1930
date QS:P571,+1930-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Medium woodblock color print
Notes
English: Woodblock made ca. 1930 exactly the same way as they were made by artisans ca. 1830. The skill and the care are the same. There is a drawing or a copy of it coming from the artist. Then the woodcutter and the printer take over. Their skill varies. Hokusai once wrote to one of his editors that he was not happy with one of the woodcutters. In the case of the new cuts of the 36 views of the Fuji, only experts can distinguish the many versions - mainly by differences of the frame around the script
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