Hokusai Assorted Landscapes Postcard Pack

Exclusive to the British Museum, a pack of 10 postcards featuring landscape woodblock prints by Hokusai.

Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) is considered by many to be Japan’s greatest artist.

This selection of 10 postcards features some of the woodblock prints from his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series of landscape prints. Created both as a response to a domestic travel boom in Japan and as a part of a personal obsession with Mount Fuji, the series depicts Japan’s highest mountain from different locations and in various seasons and weather conditions.

The immediate success of the publication led to another ten prints being added to the series.

An extraordinary set of postcards.