Hokusai Landscape Boxed Cards

Katsushika Hokusai's landscapes are beloved for the fine skill they required in composition, color, and line, as well as their more intangible qualities: the distillation of nature in a precise moment. Breaking from tradition, he would sometimes outline the keyblock with blue ink rather than black-just one example of the many ways Hokusai broke new ground in the field of ukiyo-e, or "pictures of the floating world." The four images reproduced on these notecards come from three series he produced late in life: one each from Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces and A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces, and two from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, perhaps his best-known work. Contains five each of the following notecards: The Hanging-cloud Bridge at Mount Gyodo near Ashikaga, c. 1834 The Falling Mist Waterfall at Mount Kurokami in Shimotsuke Province, c. 1832 Hakone Lake in Sagami Province, c. 1830-31 Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known as the Great Wave, c. 1830-31