Hokusai`s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fiji

Art Spotlight: Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fiji
This document has all 36 prints from Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fiji.
The following links will help you discuss these works with your children.
• Art Spotlight: Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fiji: The original blog
post about these works with commentary, discussion questions, and
learning activities
• Woodblock Printing with Kids tutorial
• Free Art Appreciation Printable Worksheet Bundle
• How to Look at Art with Children
• All art posts on the Art Curator for Kids
The Art Curator for Kids, Cindy Zerm Ingram, artcuratorforkids@gmail.com, http://artcuratorforkids.com/
Conventions of Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints
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peaceful, harmonious scenes
asymmetrical composition
limited color palette of about 4 colors plus black
unclear space or perspective
diagonal or curved lines that guide your eye through
the composition
• outlined shapes filled with solid, flat color
The Art Curator for Kids, Cindy Zerm Ingram, artcuratorforkids@gmail.com, http://artcuratorforkids.com/
The Art Curator for Kids, Cindy Zerm Ingram, artcuratorforkids@gmail.com, http://artcuratorforkids.com/
Questions to Ask
• What is going on in this artwork? What do you see that makes you say
that?
• What emotions do you feel when looking at this artwork? What
emotions do you think the artist was feeling?
• Describe the lines and colors in this artwork. How do the colors and
lines contribute to the emotion?
• Describe the ways Hokusai included Mount Fuji in the artworks.
• What can you tell about the Japanese way of life in the Edo Period by
looking at these artworks? What types of things are the people
doing?
• What do these artworks have in common? How could you tell that
these were created by Hokusai during this time period?
The Art Curator for Kids, Cindy Zerm Ingram, artcuratorforkids@gmail.com, http://artcuratorforkids.com/
The Art Curator for Kids, Cindy Zerm Ingram, artcuratorforkids@gmail.com, http://artcuratorforkids.com/
Learning Activities
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Haiku Poetry. This painting is perfect for a poetry-writing exercise, especially haiku
because of the Japan connection. You can download a free haiku writing worksheet by
signing up for my e-mail list here. The worksheet walks the students through a warm-up
of writing adjectives, verbs, phrases, and metaphors before they end up with their haiku.
Have students pick their favorite Hokusai work to write about.
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Woodblock Printing. These paintings are woodblock print, so a natural fit would be a
printing activity so your students can better understand how these were made. There
are lots of way to do this at home, and I just did a post about this earlier in the week to
prepare for this post. Click over to that post to learn about all the ways you can do
woodblock prints at home with your kids.
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Compare/Contrast. Pick 3-4 of Hokusai's prints (or all of them if you are feeling
ambitious) and have the students make a list of all of the things these prints have in
common. Through this activity, your students will come up with the conventions of
ukiyo-e printing as described on page 2.
The Art Curator for Kids, Cindy Zerm Ingram, artcuratorforkids@gmail.com, http://artcuratorforkids.com/
The Art Curator for Kids, Cindy Zerm Ingram, artcuratorforkids@gmail.com, http://artcuratorforkids.com/
Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, c. 1829-32
Hokusai, A sketch of the Mitsui shop in Suruga in Edo, 1830
Hokusai, Asakusa Hongan-ji temple in the Eastern capital, 1830
Hokusai, Below meguro, 1830
Hokusai, Ejiri in Suruga Province, 1830
Hokusai, Enoshima in Sagami Province, 1830
Hokusai, Fuji viewed from rice fields in Owari Province, 1830
Hokusai, Hakone Lake in Sagami Province, 1830
Hokusai, Hodogoya on the Tokaido, 1830
Hokusai, In the Mountains of Totomi, 1830
Hokusai, Inume Pass, Kōshū, 1830
Hokusai, Kajikazawa in Kai Province, 1830
Hokusai, Lake Suwa in Shinano Province, 1830
Hokusai, Michima Pass in Kai Province, 1830
Hokusai, Mount Fuji reflects in Lake Kawaguchi, seen from the Misaka Pass in Kai Province, 1830
Hokusai, Nihonbashi bridge in Edo, 1830
Hokusai, Noborito Bay, 1830
Hokusai, Rainstorm beneath the summit, 1830
Hokusai, Sazai hall - Temple of Five Hundred Rakan, 1830
Hokusai, Sea coast at Tago, near Ejiri, 1830
Hokusai, Senju, Musashi Province, 1830
Hokusai, Shichiri beach in Sagami Province, 1830
Hokusai, South Wind, Clear Sky, 1830
Hokusai, Sundai, Edo, 1830
Hokusai, Sunset across the Ryōgoku bridge from the bank of the Sumida River at Onmayagashi, 1830
Hokusai, Tama River in Musashi Province, 1830
Hokusai, Tea house at Koishikawa. The morning after a snowfall, 1830
Hokusai, The Circular Pine Trees of Aoyama, 1830
Hokusai, The village of Sekiya on the Sumida River, 1830
Hokusai, Tsukada Island in the Musashi province, 1830
Hokusai, Umezawa in Sagami province, 1830
Hokusai, Under Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa, 1830
Hokusai, Ushibori in Hitachi Province, 1830
Hokusai, Watermill at Onden, 1830
Hokusai, Yoshida on the Tokaido, 1830
Hokusai, The Kazusa Province sea route, 1830