Classy-looking fold-out, slipcased book.
Hokusai’s 46 (10 extra were commissioned later) views of Mt. Fuji done in the 1830s, featuring “The Great Wave” (on slipcase cover below).
below: Inside the slipcase, a booklet (on left) introducing the series and explaining each illustration and the fold-out shimmering-surfaced book itself (on right), to be read in order from back (right) to front (left).
below: first view–“The Great Wave”; all the pictures are of Japanese people in Nature with Mt. Fuji in the background
below: the book per se opens up accordion-style with silk screen illustrations on one side, which can be stretched out in full on a long, flat table surface
