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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 377141, member: 2844&quot;]These are all cards of prints by Hokusai, one of the most famous Japanese Ukiyo-e artists of the early 19th century. A nice souvenir, but they have yellowed.</p><p>Up till ca 1800 most art was for the upper classes, but when the Japanese middle class started to grow and prosper, they wanted art as well, with subjects they liked. Ukiyo-e was developed to be that art. Ukiyo-e were prints meant for the greater public. Ukiyo-e means &#039;images of a fleeting life&#039;, so not important mythological or courtly scenes.</p><p>There are probably 36 cards, the 36 views of Mount Fuji, Hokusai&#039;s most famous set of works. You will see Mt Fuji on all of them, even if it is only a tiny triangle in the distance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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