Having acquired the woodcut series "True Views of the King of the Mountains" published by Sano Shinkei in 1822, the MAK presents an exhibition focusing on the artistic exploration of Mount Fuji, one of Japan's most important icons, in its Works on Paper Room.

Katsushika Hokusai calls Japan's highest mountain "fu-ni", i.e. "there is no other like it". By and by, the volcano which is still considered as active, has become the symbol for Japan. Legend has it that the Fujisan dates back to the year 286 B.C. The mountain is the home of goddess Konohana Sakuya Hime who had the task of protecting the population from the eruptions of the volcano. The rise of the "Mount Fuji cult" during the early Edo Period as well as the impact of European landscape representation since the eighteenth century resulted in a new iconography regarding this unique mountain.

Curator Johannes Wieninger