Hokusai and Mount Fuji

A lively account about Hokusai, told by one of his main sources of inspiration: Mount Fuji.

 

Sacred Japanese mountain Fujisan is the unexpected narrator of this account about Hokusai, this man obsessed with drawing, who represented the mountain thirty-six  times, in close up and from a distance, in The Great Wave, at dawn or at twilight, under the snow or during a storm…

 

"In his last painting, a dragon spreads his wings up above my peak. I like to think that this dragon that valorously glides over the clouds is him. The old drawing fanatic."

 

The picture book is part of "The Other Story series": stories or facts about our cultural heritage, told in an original way, through the point of view of a character or of a secondary element.

 

Daniele Catalli has illustrated several books at Amaterra, included The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice, winner of the Nuit du livre award.