Mount Fuji Seen from the Senju Pleasure Quarter (Senju kagai yori chobo no Fuji), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"
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Mount Fuji Seen from the Senju Pleasure Quarter (Senju kagai yori chobo no Fuji) is an ukiyo-e print by Katsushika Hokusai from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei), dated about 1825 and held in the Art Institute of Chicago. Senju, on the northeastern fringe of Edo near the start of the Nikko highway, hosted an officially sanctioned pleasure quarter that catered to travelers leaving and returning to the city. Hokusai's design uses the district's wooden bridges, boats, and waterways as a low foreground frame, while Mount Fuji rises distantly on the horizon. The composition pairs the rhythms of daily commerce and leisure, fishermen at work, packhorses crossing bridges, figures moving among the quarter's buildings, with the silent, sacred peak that anchors the larger series. This juxtaposition is central to the Thirty-six Views, which insists that Fuji can be glimpsed from every kind of place, sacred or secular, polished or quotidian. As an Edo ukiyo-e print, the design relies on Prussian blue gradients for water and sky, careful tonal printing for clouds and mist, and Hokusai's signature low horizon. The Art Institute of Chicago's impression preserves these effects, documenting how Katsushika Hokusai integrated Senju's working-class river district into one of the most ambitious landscape series of Edo ukiyo-e.
1821
Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; surimono shikishiban
1822
Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
1822
Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
c. 1832
Color woodblock print; oban
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Mount Fuji Seen from the Senju Pleasure Quarter (Senju kagai yori chobo no Fuji), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)" was created by Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎) in c. 1830/33.
Yes — Mount Fuji Seen from the Senju Pleasure Quarter (Senju kagai yori chobo no Fuji), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)" is part of the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series by Katsushika Hokusai.
Mount Fuji Seen from the Senju Pleasure Quarter (Senju kagai yori chobo no Fuji), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)" depicts landscapes and mount fuji.