100 Views of Mount Fuji by Timothy Clark

100 Views of Mount Fuji by Timothy Clark

Mount Fuji is renowned worldwide as Japan's highest and most perfectly-shaped mountain. Serving as a potent metaphor in classical love poetry and revered since mediaeval times by mountain-climbing sects of both the Shinto and Buddhist faiths, Fuji has taken on many roles in ancient Japan. This volume explores a wide range of manifestations of the mountain in more recent visual culture, as portrayed in 100 works by Japanese painters and print designers from the 17th century to the present in the collections of The British Museumn. Featured alongside traditional paintings of the Kano, Sumiyoshi and Shijo schools are the more individualistic print designs of Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Hiroshige, Munakata Shiko, Hagiwara Hideo and others. New currents of empiricism and subjectivity have enabled artists of recent centuries to project a surprisingly wide range of personal interpretations onto what was once regarded as such an eternal, unchanging symbol.

Timothy Clark is Assistant Keeper in the Department of Japanese Antiquities at The British Museum. His other books include Ukiyo-e Paintings in The British Museum and Demon of Painting: the Art of Kawanabe Kyosai.

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ISBN 13	9780714114941
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Title	100 Views of Mount Fuji
Author	Timothy Clark
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	British Museum Press
Year published	2001-05-01
Number of pages	160
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