Shichirigahama in Sagami Province (Sōshū Shichirigahama), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)
Katsushika Hokusai Japanese
Not on view
The aizuri technique, a printing process in which Prussian blue dominates a print's color scheme, gained great popularity in the first third of the nineteenth century and was used by Hokusai to fashion this print. Bathing the print in a veil of blue tones, this process helps to create a cohesive, unified composition.
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