At ninety I shall penetrate the mystery of things. At a hundred I shall certainly have reached a marvelous stage, and when I am a hundred and ten, everything I do - be it but a line or a dot - will be alive.
— A complete set of Katsushika Hokusai’s Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji are currently showing at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. How you carve 12 plates for a woodblock print, and get them all in perfect registration is beyond me.





