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Join Russell Kelty, Curator of Asian Art, discusses the artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and his obsession with Mount Fuji in the display Misty Mountain, Shining Moon: Japanese Landscape Envisioned.
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Image: Katsushika Hokusai, Japan, 1760 - 1849, Fine wind, clear weather (Gaifū kaisei), from the series Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei), c.1830-32, Edo (Tokyo), woodblock print, ink and colour on paper, 24.5 x 36.5 cm (image & sheet); South Australian Government Grant 1976, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.