Hiroshige. Les trente-six vues du mont Fuji. Etrurie more broadly

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Characterized by their frontality

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Some have thus become famous and have entered the collective memory

Hiroshige. Les trente-six vues du mont Fuji. Etrurie more broadlyThis series of Thirty six Views of Mount Fuji, published in 1853 by Hiroshige (1797 1858) in horizontal format, is reproduced here in facsimile for the first time in the West; it echoes, twenty years later, the famous eponymous series by Hokusai. Among natural sites, Mount Fuji, a sacred volcano, has become a symbol of Japan. Symbol of eternity, the highest point in Japan, omnipresent in the archipelago, a source of inspiration for artists, it is the