Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849) after, Lake Hakone... Lot 20

Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849) after, Lake Hakone in the province of Sagami, Japan, Print from the series of "36 views of Fuji" - Fugaku sanjûrokkei. Sight size : 25,5 x 36,5 cm + the frame, around 1900 The shores of Lake Ashinoko, rich in commercial activities, were very popular at that time. Hokusai chose to represent in this print a landscape devoid of any human or animal representation. Only the blue roofs of a Shinto shrine can evoke a human presence. Here the artist favors the silent serenity of curving hills and curved sheets of mist, from which the triangle of Mount Fuji emerges in the background.