But the theme of “Oceans of Wisdom” focused on the people who lived around the sea and the rivers, and went fishing.
He used the sketches which he drew for “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji”, other landscape printings, and the topographies as the reference.
Though the series contains ten pictures, Tokyo National Museum holds other incomplete artwork. The half of the prints show the view of the sea and others the rivers. You can hardly see the whole prints all at once. Because the number of the now-existing works are clearly less than “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji”.
“Oceans of Wisdom” is a rare series less than 10 in the world compared with the number of “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” being 50 or more, or 100 or more.
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