If You Like Japanese Art,

you will be familiar with,

the Great Wave, all images © Taschen, which is featured in a forthcoming volume from Taschen a homage to renowned Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and his iconic woodblock print series, 

Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, compiling Hokusai’s original 36 artworks and the ten pieces he created following the success of the initial collection,

a XXL edition has been created that celebrates the lauded artist and his fascination with Japan’s highest mountain,

encased in a cloth box with wooden closures, the 224-page book is layered with Japanese history and tradition in both content and form and features uncut paper and custom binding,

the art historical works are paired with 114 colour variations and writing by Andreas Marks—the director of the Clark Centre for Japanese Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art is also behind Taschen’s volume chronicling more than two centuries of woodblock prints—who offers background on the exquisite body of work Hokusai produced throughout the Edo period when a local tourism boom positioned Mount Fuji as an enduring cultural landmark,

Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji will be released in June and is available for pre-order from Bookshop, put me down for one!