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Hiroshige and Mount Fuji
Second Exhibition: Mount of Faith: Fuji
January 25 (Tue.) ~ April 3 (Sun.) 2022
- Part 1:
- January 25 (Tue.) ~ February 27 (Sun.)
- Part 2:
- March 1 (Tue.) ~ April 3 (Sun.)
*All art pieces are replaced once a session is over.
Mount Fuji had always been familiarized amongst the Japanese as a subject of faith and a symbol of art. The mountain was recognized as “Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration” or World heritage in 2013. This exhibition will introduce Mount Fuji from two different perspectives: art and faith.
The exhibition hall will focus on Utagawa Hiroshige who was well known as a Meisyo-eshi (landscape painter), and will introduce 2 series of the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji that were transformed to Ukiyo-e in his later years and are using Mount Fuji as the motif. On the other hand, the exhibition room will introduce the Fuji-kō (devotional Fuji confraternities) boom that gained popularity among the public in the mid-Edo era using a pictorial map that depicts the mountain trail utilized for Fuji Tohai (climbing a mountain with faith). Discover Mount Fuji’s two unique faces: art and faith.
- Organizer:
- Shizuoka City
Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art - Designated Manager:
- NPO Hexaproject
- Cooperation:
- Mt.Fuji World Heritage Center, Shizuoka
Mt.Fuji and Princess Kaguya Museum
Exhibited Works
[Part1 Exhibits] Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
The “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” were published around 1852 by Sanoya Kihei and the first he made in his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series. The size is horizontal chūban, exactly half the size of “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji”. In the works “Under Ryōgokubashi Bridge” and “Tagonoura Bay in Suruga Province”, Hiroshige uses the “Kinzō-gata Kōzu” composition which is rare in his horizontal works, making them important works in tracing his change of style in his later years.
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji “Edobashi Bridge and Nihonbashi Bridge in the Eastern Capital”
Collection of Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji “The Embankment at Koganei in Musashi Province”
Collection of Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art
[Part2 Exhibits] Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
The vertical Ōban nishiki-e works of “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” were made in 1858, the year Hiroshige passed away, and published by Tsutaya Kichizō the following year. These innovative compositional works make use of the paper’s vertical structure by using an overhead view to create depth and perspective as well as using “Kinzo-gata Kōzu” by enlarging objects in the foreground.
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji “The Sea off Satta in Suruga Province”
Collection of Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji “The Pine Forest of Miho in Suruga Province”
Collection of Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art
