Changes

Though he had produced many landscape works in earlier years, it was around 1830 that Hokusai began work on the "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji", and entered a period of his career which would later come to define him as one of the greatest of all Japanese landscape artists.

Though he had produced many landscape works in earlier years, it was around 1830 that Hokusai began work on the "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji", and entered a period of his career which would later come to define him as one of the greatest of all Japanese landscape artists.

[[Hiroshige]]'s "Fifty-three Stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]" was published in [[1833]], spurring Hokusai to create the three-volume picture book "One Hundred Views of Fuji."

[[Hiroshige]]'s "Fifty-three Stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]" was published in [[1833]], spurring Hokusai to create the three-volume illustrated book "[[One Hundred Views of Fuji]]."

It was in these last decades of his life that Hokusai produced a great many landscape series, including "Eight Views of Edo", "Eight Views of Ryukyu", "Oceans of Wisdom", and "Rare Views of Famous Japanese Bridges", while continuing to produce prints and paintings with a wide variety of themes and subjects.

It was in these last decades of his life that Hokusai produced a great many landscape series, including "Eight Views of Edo", "Eight Views of Ryukyu", "Oceans of Wisdom", and "Rare Views of Famous Japanese Bridges", while continuing to produce prints and paintings with a wide variety of themes and subjects.