{"product_id":"pleasure-district-at-senju-from-36-views-of-mt-fuji-series-by-hokusai","title":"The Pleasure District at Senju","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"152\" data-end=\"201\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"152\" data-end=\"166\"\u003eSenju Yukaku\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"166\" data-end=\"169\"\u003eThirty-six Views of Mount Fuji\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"203\" data-end=\"223\"\u003eKatsushika Hokusai\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr data-start=\"225\" data-end=\"228\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-start=\"230\" data-end=\"252\"\u003eArtwork Description\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"254\" data-end=\"504\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"254\" data-end=\"268\"\u003eSenju Yukaku\u003c\/em\u003e presents a lively district in Senju, an area known not only as a major post town but also for its licensed pleasure quarters. Rather than isolating the entertainment district, Hokusai situates it within the broader flow of Edo society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"506\" data-end=\"803\"\u003eIn the foreground, a disciplined samurai procession advances along the road, forming a structured horizontal movement. Their ordered formation contrasts with bystanders who pause, observe, and converse casually along the edges of the scene. Hierarchy and informality occupy the same spatial field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"805\" data-end=\"1068\"\u003eThe composition organizes movement through a central roadway that recedes toward the horizon, where Mount Fuji appears in the distance. Fuji does not dominate; it stabilizes. Its snow-capped peak introduces vertical calm against the horizontal flow of urban life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1070\" data-end=\"1300\"\u003eHokusai’s strength lies in spatial orchestration. Formal procession and everyday curiosity coexist without conflict. The pleasure district becomes neither moralized nor romanticized; it is simply embedded within the social fabric.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1302\" data-end=\"1497\"\u003eThrough geometry and contrast—order versus spontaneity, procession versus pause—Hokusai constructs a scene where structured authority and popular life unfold beneath the silent constancy of Fuji.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr data-start=\"1499\" data-end=\"1502\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-start=\"1504\" data-end=\"1531\"\u003eAbout Katsushika Hokusai\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1533\" data-end=\"1722\"\u003eKatsushika Hokusai was one of the most influential ukiyo-e artists of the Edo period. Active as painter and printmaker, he expanded ukiyo-e into a structural study of landscape and society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1724\" data-end=\"1869\"\u003eIn \u003cem data-start=\"1727\" data-end=\"1759\"\u003eThirty-six Views of Mount Fuji\u003c\/em\u003e, he repeatedly juxtaposes human systems—faith, labor, commerce, travel—with the mountain’s enduring presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr data-start=\"1871\" data-end=\"1874\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-start=\"1876\" data-end=\"1891\"\u003eReproduction\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1893\" data-end=\"1993\"\u003eThis work is a 20th century lithographic reproduction of Hokusai’s \u003cem data-start=\"1960\" data-end=\"1992\"\u003eThirty-six Views of Mount Fuji\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1995\" data-end=\"2084\"\u003eIt is not an original Edo period woodblock print, but a later limited edition lithograph.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2086\" data-end=\"2150\"\u003eHand printed and numbered 180\/300 in pencil on the lower margin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr data-start=\"2152\" data-end=\"2155\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-start=\"2157\" data-end=\"2167\"\u003eDetails\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2169\" data-end=\"2232\"\u003eMedium: Lithograph\u003cbr data-start=\"2187\" data-end=\"2190\"\u003eEdition: 180\/300\u003cbr data-start=\"2206\" data-end=\"2209\"\u003eSize: 410 mm × 600 mm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2234\" data-end=\"2284\"\u003eAll artworks are sold as shown in the photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kumano.is","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49104556425516,"sku":null,"price":29999.0,"currency_code":"ISK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0796\/6205\/5724\/files\/Kumano_project_Hokusai_20240601_0010.jpg?v=1717696662","url":"https:\/\/kumano.is\/products\/pleasure-district-at-senju-from-36-views-of-mt-fuji-series-by-hokusai","provider":"Kumano.is","version":"1.0","type":"link"}