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This bilingual haiku anthology features Fugaku sanjū rokkei (Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji), a masterpiece of the ukiyo-e woodblock print series by Katsushika Hokusai (October 1760-May 1849), which contains one of the most famous ukiyo-e woodblock prints. As Fugaku sanjū rokkei-consisting of 36 ukiyo-e woodblock prints of the landscape at various locations, each with a view of Mt. Fuji-was published in 1831-1834, it became an instant best-seller so that additional 10 prints were made. Hokusai's striking composition and the use of a blue color (Prussian blue) not only inspired another ukiyo-e painter Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-October 1858) to publish Tōkaidō gojū-san tsugi (The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road, 1833-1844) and his own Fuji sanjū rokkei (Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji, 1852), but also caused a sensation in the French art world in the late 19th century. Consequently, 'Japonism' (Japonisme in French) became a source of inspiration for many Western artists, and Hokusia's work specifically influenced such Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters as Claude Monet (1840-1926), Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), and James McNeil Whistler (1834-1903). * * * This new haiku collection (2025) presents 46 haikus, corresponding to the 46 ukiyo-e woodblock prints in Fugaku sanjū rokkei, as a homage, along with appropriate season words per the Japanese calendar and annotations.

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