Hokusai and Fujisan

« In his latest painting, a dragon takes flight, rising above my top. I like to think that that bold dragon riding the clouds is him. » Mount Fuji (Fujisan), the sacred mountain of Japan, is the unexpected narrator of this story about the life of Hokusai, to which Daniele Catalli pays homage with his graphic interpretation. The artist, obsessed with drawing, depicted the mountain countless times throughout his life: in the foreground and in the distance, against the background of the great wave, at dawn and dusk, under the snow or during a storm...

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