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    Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist best known for his woodblock print series "36 Views of Mount Fuji" including the iconic "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" from around 1830. The series was commissioned by a publisher and featured Hokusai's innovative use of perspective and diagramming of natural forms into geometric shapes. The print entered collections in the United States in the early 20th century after being purchased from dealers and donors.

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    Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist best known for his woodblock print series "36 Views of Mount Fuji" including the iconic "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" from around 1830. The series was commissioned by a publisher and featured Hokusai's innovative use of perspective and diagramming of natural forms into geometric shapes. The print entered collections in the United States in the early 20th century after being purchased from dealers and donors.

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    Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist best known for his woodblock print series "36 Views of Mount Fuji" including the iconic "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" from around 1830. The series was commissioned by a publisher and featured Hokusai's innovative use of perspective and diagramming of natural forms into geometric shapes. The print entered collections in the United States in the early 20th century after being purchased from dealers and donors.

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    Katsushika Hokusai

    Kanagawa great wave


    1 of 36, multiple prints
    36: early immortal poets
    +10 after initial run, total of "46 views"
    "marketing and [artistic] skill"
    probably didn't visit most actual sites
    publisher Nakamura Yohachi commissions image, hires block cutters & printers
    1069, Pictorial bio of Sh toku, horse jumping off Mt. Fuji
    1530, Shikibu Terutada, Eight Views of Mt. Fuji
    1812, Shiba K kan, Mt. Fuji from Imai Ferry
    Hokusai precursors to great wave c. 1800
    Hokusai manga, vanishing point perspective diagrams & natural forms diagrammed i
    nto geometric shapes
    Prussian blue - "hybridity"
    1900
    1911
    1913
    1921
    1934

    purchased by Denman Waldo Ross from Yamanaka & Co.


    purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow
    purchased by W. & J. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright
    donated by W. & J. Spaulding - different colors, sky
    Nellie P. Carter

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