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Shichiri Beach in Sagami Province (Sōshū shichiri-ga-hama), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Shichiri Beach in Sagami Province (Sōshū shichiri-ga-hama), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

1760 - 1849

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Japanese

The print is designed in blue, gree and white. An irregular rocky peninsula juts out from the right with clumps of trees rising against the distant snowy mass of Fuji. Young pines on the foreground hill. White clouds contrast with the deep blue of the horizon. Blue outline.

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Edo period, 1615-1868

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