Mont Fuji, Japan mb-height 4322 Study of the White Crane

Study of the White Crane (Grus leukogeranus)

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Inscribed: 'Upright Section of the HOUSE & RESERVOIR & also of the OUT JETTY for the Crank

Standing bowl and cover of silver gilt

and to the right

Mont Fuji, Japan mb-height 4322 Study of the White CraneMont Fuji, Japan, c1823 (1956). Titled 'South Wind, Clear Sky', but popularly known as 'Red Fuji', this is one of Hokusai's famous series of 36 woodblock prints, 'Thirty six Views of Mount Fuji'. From the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. A print from Places, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.