100 Views Of Mount Fuji

by Timothy Clark

Mount Fuji is renowned worldwide as Japan's highest and most perfectly shaped mountain. Serving as a potent metaphor in classical love poetry and revered since ancient times by mountain-climbing sects of both the Shinto and Buddhist faiths, Fuji has taken on many roles in pre-modern Japan. This volume explores a wide range of manifestations of the mountain in more recent visual culture, as portrayed in more than 100 works by Japanese painters and print designers from the 17th century to the present. Featured alongside traditional paintings of the Kano, Sumiyoshi, and Shijo schools are the more individualistic print designs of Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Hiroshige, Munakata Shiko, Hagiwara Hideo, and others. New currents of empiricism and subjectivity have enabled artists of recent centuries to project a surprisingly wide range of personal interpretations onto what was once regarded as such an eternal, unchanging symbol.

Genres: Japan, Art

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Timothy Clark is a British curator and scholar specializing in Japanese art. He served at the British Museum from 1988 to 2019, including many years as Head of the Japanese Section overseeing a vast collection. An expert on Edo and Meiji period paintings and prints, he has curated major exhibitions and authored numerous studies. He later became an Honorary Research Fellow and received Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun for promoting Japanese culture in the United Kingdom.