Old Man and Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai
In 1834by Hokusai began a three-volume series of "One
Hundred Views of Fuji", in which he depicted the sacred
mountain from many very imaginative situations. Critics
have interpreted the old man here either as yawning
after an afternoon's work or laughing with delight at
the sight of the snowy mountain. The old man looks like
various Hokusai self-portraits: it would be pleasing to
imagine that the man here is Hokusai himself, already
seventy-five years old.
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