Day three hundred and twenty-one: This afternoon I had the pleasure of spending a little time with an expert on Japanese prints who was visiting from Washington D.C. We looked at an example of “Red Fuji” in the PMA’s collection, which turns out to be a very fine, early impression of the classic color woodcut by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849). The image is one of the most famous from his series of 36 views of the famous mountain.
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