Hokusai's Fuji Brand / Girringun Art Centre What they find is the

What they find is the extraordinary island now known as Skellig Michael

or relegated to the background—in short

showcasing their enduring appeal from historic masterpieces to individual creations of today

specifically to popular types of books using ukiyo-e

Hokusai's Fuji Brand / Girringun Art Centre What they find is theKatsushika Hokusais Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji and the three volumes of his subsequent One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji show his fascination with a single motif: Mount Fuji. Hokusais near obsession with Fuji was part of his hankering after artistic immortality. In Buddhist and Daoist tradition, this mountain was thought to hold the secret to eternal life, as one popular interpretation of its name suggests: fu shi (not death). Thirty Six Views of