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Subject:Re: Unidentified art
Posted By: Guy Wed, Jan 14, 2015
As Stan already mentioned, the truly iconic series 'Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji' was already reissued many times, even during Hokusai's lifetime (he died in 1849).
The first impressions of this print, dating from ca 1831, were printed with a blue line-block (or key-block) and entirely in shades of blue (aizurie). Later impressions featured an increased number of colors used (green, yellow, violet and pink). In even later impressions, printed with a black line-block (as it is the case with your print), the color sheme is often in shades of blue, with only the clothing and basket printed in (brownish) red.
It could be that your print is a very late impression, printed from the worn-out original blocks - but - eventually still preceding Hokusai's death.
Try to match every single little detail in your print with a known late and tired impression also printed from a black line-block (see copy MFA Boston in the link below). If everything is identical in the design - without any discrepancies, your copy is presumely also a late (and soiled) Edo era impression.
Link:
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/kajikazawa-in-kai-province-k%C3%B4sh%C3%BB-kajikazawa-from-the-series-thirty-six-views-of-mount-fuji-fugaku-sanj%C3%BBrokkei-209453
Succes,
Guy.
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( China & Japan ) - Dave Ross - Jan 11, 2015 (06:19 PM) 
