View the striking mountains, rivers, and cities of Japan in the woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige.
Here Mount Fuji is viewed beyond a waterfall. On the paths to the left and right two lone figures are trudging upwards,carrying heavy loads on their backs. The mountains are printed almost entirely in blue. When brilliantly-coloured ‘Prussian blue’ pigment was first introduced in the 1830s, it was such a novelty that some publishers produced aizuri-e (blue-printed pictures using only shades of blue) for the fascinated public.
Impey, Oliver, Hiroshige's Views of Mount Fuji: A Selection of Woodblock Print Views of Mount Fuji, Including Examples from the Series 'The Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji', of 1858-9, by Hiroshige, 1797-1858 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2001), no. 13 on p. 12, illus. p. 26 pl. 13
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