Thirty-Six Views Of Mount Fuji

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Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji is a series of landscape prints by the Japanese artist Hokusai (1760-1849). The series depicts Mount Fuji from different locations and in various seasons and weather conditions. One of the images “Ejiri in Suruga Province” illustrates naturalistically one of the windy days in Japan. Even thou it is a two dimensional picture, by using different technic such as different scales, hatching intensity, and color value the author shows atmospheric perspective. The picture is made in a traditional Japanese style and its composition is very dynamic. The front of the picture contains people, and objects, and it is very saturated compare to its faded background, which has only outline of Mount Fuji on it.

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