One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji

Produced in 1834 by Katsushika Hokusai, One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji is a continuation of Hokusai's most famous work; the 1823-1829 36 Views of Mount Fuji. 36 Views of Mount Fuji was groundbreaking work in that it occured during a period where woodblock printing was shifting away from portraitature, and incorporating western perspective. By the time Hokusai produced One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji, his use of perspective was in full swing. Hokusai regularly uses Mt. Fuji as a way of depicting the relative size, whether large or small, of other objects in the image. He does this while maintaining traditional Japanese artistic elements, such as asymmetry, a sense of harmony between nature and people, and the use of things such as fog to create unclear space.