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One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fujimi hyakuzu) 富士見百図

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows a book opened to two pages. Each page contains a landscape drawing of mountains. The left page shows a drawing of a mountain range with a river flowing through it. The mountains are brown and tan with some greenery. A few people are standing on a path in the lower left. The sky is blue. The right page shows a drawing of a large snow-capped mountain. The mountain is in the center and has a pointed peak. There are smaller mountains in the foreground, brown and tan with some greenery. The sky is blue. There is Japanese text on the lower right. The pages are yellowed and have a rectangular cutout in the center of each page for the drawing. The background behind the book is white.

Artwork details

Date:
1859 (Ansei 6)
Medium:
Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
599 × 400 px
Museum record:
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