View Hokusai Mount Fuji Ks2 Background. By hokusai / του χοκουσάι. Mount fuji (富士山, fujisan, ipa:
Mount fuji was hidden by the clouds, but still it is beautiful to admire the view!
Japan's highest mountain, mount fuji is a sacred site for the shinto faith, an enduring presence and recurring motif in japanese literature and poetry. The work is basically an ink painting, and the contrast between the geometrical form of the mountain and the sinuous curves of the black clouds and dragon represents a type of composition characteristic of hokusai. Half of detatched page from one hundred views of mount fuji (fugaku hyakkei) vol. On the clearest of days, its white capped peak may be visible from hundreds of kilometers away;