Great video, as always! This channel is criminally underrated.

Thank you for this video. So great you decided to analyse all 36 paintings, I was curious to know about the other works and not only 'The Great Wave'. This video go straight to my list of painting analysis.

It's a great analysis of Hokusai's most recognized series!!! Great job! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

You deserve a lot more subs. This is exellent content.

Wonderful exploration and poetic words! Thank you.

Fantastic Job, i will use it for my students!

I think that Japanese spirituality informs the art a lot. Looking at these pictures, I always have the weird feeling that Fuji is looking back at me, and there's a god-like feeling to the mountain's omnipresence. Which makes sense, given Japanese ideas about kami, and specifically the one associated with Fuji, Konohanasakuya-hime. She's supposed to be the one preventing the mountain from erupting, so having the mountain/her looking over fragile human activities might be the point, i.e. that the spirit of the mountain is in control.

I only just discovered this channel and I already love it!

Dude, this might be the best one i've seen so far. I love the theme of human and his relationship with nature, it is also present in almost every Hayao Miyazaki's films and is core to the Shinto religion, but it is beautifully illustrated in this series of art pieces and perfectly accompanied by the quote from Karl Marx. For this i'd say in Mexican slang: ¡Chulada! (means a very beautiful thing)

One of the best videos I've seen on UKposts no cap

I only ever saw the first "view" of mount Fuji, but the others are just as lovely, there is something very reassuring about the constant presence of the mountain as you go through the series, you'd never get that from looking at just one of them. With some of the close-ups I can't help but feel like I am looking at a still from a Miyazaki movie, for example Nausicaa, when the villagers are removing the spores from their trees or Princess Mononoke when Ashitaka is travelling through the countryside. I hope you've seen some of those movies. All his movies are all fantastic. Your political inclusion was a lot more subtle this time, but mentioning the author you quoted by name after showing the source on screen was a bit on the nose. You lose points on "graceful delivery" for making it that explicit :). I cannot deny the harmony between labour and labourer that exudes from the pictures and it may well be true that in some respects the life of a peasant working his field may be more rewarding than that of an office rat or a factory worker, but on the whole, the benefits of a modern life far outweigh those of a primitive agricultural existence. And for those, who find the modern way of life insufferable and alienating, they can always quit their job and do whatever they like, if they have the courage for it. A peasant may grow his own food and feel a great sense of purpose from eating it and thus engaging directly with the fruits of his labour, but he will never escape his station, no matter his courage or ingenuity. He is a prisoner but we are free.

I never realized that that was Mount Fuji in the background wow

Superb video and analysis. Thank you for sharing these beautiful breathtaking images.

I dare say you've done it again! Fantastic and insightful analysis as always and thank you so much for also focusing on the other views of the mountain and not just The Great Wave! (Edited for autocorrect typo)

Amazing as always, thank you!

Instantly became a big fan of this channel. A perfect piece of content. Great!!!

Thank you for this insightful content.

that's was amazing, thank you!

Your interpretation is absolutely stunning. I may be a little tardy to the party but nonetheless so eye opening

I was not aware of half of the history associated with this series of art--and beautiful as they are, having the background details laid out here was so very helpful. :)

loved this discussion and really appreciated your research. the majority of my artistic work is about the relationship between people and nature and as essential as that is, it is rare to hear it talked about (especially in an articulate and thoughtful manner).

So fabulous ❤

Super documentary... Thank you.

Great video! Thank you!

amazing, thank you

beautiful

You've explained Japanese culture in subtle ways, and drew attention to the number of working class folks in supreme prints...I'm going to read more about him.

great job, man!

I don't know if you read comments in your older videos, but let me tell you that your analysis is amazing! This one in particular reminds me what Guy Debbord studied about the historical time of capital, and the appropriation of the social labor of daily life. Would you consider the chance of revisiting the same subject of ephemeral and eternal (through labor and capitalistic history) in paintings from modern urban times? Anyway, hugs form South America.

Grade A. Bravo.

I really really loved this video, where have you been?????! I found you by accident while researching the history of policing in Canada (your Monkman video)!!

Beautifully presented. What is the music called?

Thanks.

I actually just bought 2 of these prints on canvas for my condo

Another great video! Guys, have you thought about joining Nebula? I think it would be a good fit and could attract more well-deserved attention to this awesome channel.

🌊 it even has an emoji. The apple emoji for wave is literally a copy of Hokusai's wave. not kidding. check it out.

I noticed that the majority of people depicted had their faces completely obscured. Significant or not, I don’t know.

I know I am late but what music do you use in the background

-watch a video about Katsushika Hokusai -"Here are some Karl Marx quotes" okay how about these quotes then. "Nature knows no political frontiers. She begins by establishing life on this globe and then watches the free play of forces. Those who show the greatest courage and industry are the children nearest to her heart and they will be granted the sovereign right of existence." or "One may defy Nature for a certain period of time; but sooner or later she will take her inexorable revenge. And when man realizes this truth it is often too late."

I know this from FGO so ;)

Labourers: Art is nice and all, but we'd rather have your job than ours.

Yep the Marx reference was a stretch.

Quoting Marx is hilarious. What’s next? “Work is liberating”? Poor Hokusai…

He painted laborers because he was a woodblock print seller. His prints would be sold for 40 mon a piece, basically the price someone would pay for lunch. His audience was laborers/common people. Nice community college communist analysis though.

Some of this sounds like reaching.