{"id":32,"date":"2019-04-10T13:35:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T17:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/mux300-jxu\/?p=32"},"modified":"2019-04-26T13:34:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T17:34:39","slug":"clear-weather-southern-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/interpreting-collections\/2019\/04\/10\/clear-weather-southern-breeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Clear Weather, Southern Breeze"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Katsushika Hokusai <\/strong>(Japanese, 1760 – 1849)
\nClear Weather, Southern Breeze<\/em> (Gaif\u00fb Kaisei), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku Sanj\u00fbrokkei)<\/em>
\nwoodcut printed in color on paper
\nGift of Mr. and Mrs. James Barker (Margaret Clark Rankin, class of 1908) “The Margaret Rankin Barker – Isaac Ogden Rankin Collection of Oriental Art”<\/p>\n

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Katsushika Hokusai (\u845b\u98fe\u5317\u658e) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter, and printmaker of the Edo period. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as the author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji<\/em> (\u5bcc\u5dbd\u4e09\u5341\u516d\u666f Fugaku Sa<\/em>nj\u016broku-kei<\/em>, c. 1831), containing images of modern facsimile prints made using the same techniques. Although called “36 views”, the series actually consists of 46 designs. Hokusai created the series both as a response to a domestic travel boom and as part of a personal and religious obsession with Mount Fuji.<\/p>\n