Art Spotlight: Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fiji

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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, [email protected], http://artcuratorforkids.com/ Conventions of Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints

• 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

• 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?

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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, [email protected], http://artcuratorforkids.com/ The Art Curator for Kids, Cindy Zerm Ingram, [email protected], 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