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Shower Below the Summit

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1830/33

Clear skies crown Mount Fuji while a thunderstorm breaks at its foot, in a print of striking simplicity by Hokusai.

CHF 59.00

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Size: 45 × 30 cm
Frame: No frame

Printed by our partner in Germany, delivered in 7–12 working days. Swiss import charges may apply.

Edges: Mirrored

Same price. This fills the band on the front and covers the canvas sides.

Printed complete, never cropped

To fit 45 × 30 cm, a 3.6% band on the left and right is filled with a mirror of the artwork's own edge. Nothing of the artwork is cut off. The preview shows exactly what you'll receive. The canvas sides are a mirror of the artwork's own edge, so the whole artwork stays on the front.

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  • ✓ Stretched on a 2 cm wooden frame, ready to hang
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About this artwork

Here Hokusai shows Mount Fuji with a calm, clear sky around its summit and a storm raging near its base. The gentle, sloping sides of the volcano sit against sharp, jagged streaks of lightning below, giving the scene great simplicity and visual force. It is a colour woodblock print in the large oban format, and belongs to Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, created when he was past seventy. The series in fact grew to forty-six views, and shows the mountain from a remarkable variety of vantage points. Fuji had long been revered as a sacred mountain, and in Hokusai's day pilgrims travelled to it from across Japan.

On your wall: Its strong, simple composition of mountain and lightning suits a living room, study or hallway where a calm yet dramatic Japanese landscape can stand on its own.

Title
Shower Below the Summit
Artist
Katsushika Hokusai
Year
c. 1830/33
Style
Japanese art
Shape
Landscape

Public domain. Image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Text based on Art Institute of Chicago (CC BY 4.0).

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About Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese painter and printmaker who worked in the ukiyo-e tradition during the Edo period. He helped widen the style beyond portraits of courtesans and actors to include landscapes, plants and animals. His series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which includes The Great Wave off Kanagawa, influenced Van Gogh and Monet.

Based on Wikipedia.

See all 15 works by Katsushika Hokusai

Canvas and printing

Printed on canvas and stretched over a 2 cm FSC-certified wooden frame, with the image wrapping around the edges. Framed versions sit in a wooden floater frame in black, natural or dark wood.

Delivery and returns

Every canvas is printed to order by our partner in Germany: framed canvases arrive in 6–11 working days, unframed ones in 7–12 working days. Delivery is free in Switzerland on orders from CHF 99. We also deliver to the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and many more countries, printed close to you where possible. You can return an undamaged canvas within 14 days. See delivery and returns.

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