Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Mountain climbers (諸人登山 Shojin tozan)

Maker

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (Japanese, 1760-1849, b. in Edo, Japan)
Nishimuraya Yohachi 西村屋与八 (Japanese, 1759-1869), publisher

Title

Mountain climbers (諸人登山 Shojin tozan)
from the series Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku sanjūrokkei)
諸人登山
冨嶽三十六景

Period

Edo (Japanese period)

Year

ca. 1833

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

ink and color

Supports

Geography

Place Made: Japan

Dimensions

Horizontal ōban: 25.1 x 36.7 cm (9 7/8 x 14 7/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signature: 前北斎為一筆

Seals: 極

Identification

Edition

Part of the supplement with black outlines only

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

20.1187

Type

Exhibition History

Being and Believing in the Natural World
Perspectives from the Ancient Mediterranean, Asia, and Indigenous North America
Oct 22, 2022 – Jun 04, 2023

Label copy

In many Asian belief systems, natural elements such as mountains, rivers, wind, and water are considered sacred, and thought to be inhabited and personified by deities. These prints depict Mount Fuji, considered the holiest mountain in the Japan and long central to Buddhist and Indigenous Japanese beliefs and to cults dedicated to mountain worship. Pilgrims scale Mount Fuji to worship and pay homage, as shown at right. Wearing straw hats and aided by walking sticks, they trudge up the steep slope, stopping at grottoes to pray.

—WC

Hokusai's Mount Fuji
Prints from "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji"
Apr 15, 1994 – May 29, 1994
Hokusai's Mount Fuji
A Selection of Prints from the Series Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji
Jun 14, 1991 – Aug 17, 1991

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Tombstone

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (Japanese, 1760-1849, b. in Edo, Japan)
Nishimuraya Yohachi 西村屋与八 (Japanese, 1759-1869), publisher
Mountain climbers (諸人登山 Shojin tozan); from the series Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku sanjūrokkei); 諸人登山; 冨嶽三十六景, ca. 1833
Polychrome woodblock print
Horizontal ōban: 25.1 x 36.7 cm (9 7/8 x 14 7/16 inches)
Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke 20.1187

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