Sōshū hakone kosui by Katsushika Hokusai Kintsugi99 every translucent colour layer and

every translucent colour layer and precise geometric edge is reproduced with full clarity

Meiji-era restraint governs every line: nothing is embellished

energetic work speak clearly

above meets below

hard-edged spacecraft

Sōshū hakone kosui by Katsushika Hokusai Kintsugi99 every translucent colour layer andThe Lake at Hakone in Sagami Province is another of Hokusai's Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji (c. 183032), showing Lake Hakone with Fuji rising beyond a stylised band of cloud (suyari gasumi) a device Hokusai used throughout the series to separate foreground and distant peak. The still water and layered mountains give the print a calm, almost meditative register, distinct from the more dramatic wave and waterfall prints in the same series. The fine art