The Manggha Museum is going to exhibit for the first time a set of black-and-white sumizuri-e woodblock prints from the gift of a private collector and enthusiast of traditional Japanese art. In 2019, Ei Nakau, a connoisseur and promoter of majestic ukiyo-e compositions, decided to gift to our museum a set of three books containing the series of prints One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai.

It is a story of the journey an artwork makes before reaching an exhibition space, where it is admired with the same ecstatic delight that once shone in the collector’s eyes.

Mr Hokusai, what do you think about it?