“A special guitar that features art by world-renowned artists”: Fender Japan’s latest Art Canvas creations bring an iconic Japanese art landscape print series from the 1800s to the Esquire

Fender has continued to celebrate the first anniversary of its flagship Tokyo store by releasing a new range of Art Canvas Esquires, which brings a trio of iconic Japanese landscape prints to an electric guitar format.

Art Canvas creations aren’t exactly new, and we’ve seen a few of them in the past – including Hiroshi Nagai’s breezy limited edition models – but these new editions take on a whole extra layer of meaning.

To celebrate the milestone in style, Fender Japan has dived into a 19th century print series composed by legendary ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, transforming three landscapes from his famed Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji range into electric guitar body artwork.

The Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series was composed between 1830 and 1832, and comprises a range of landscape prints that we imagine many of you will immediately recognize – especially The Great Wave off Kanagawa, which is used for one of the Art Canvas Esquires.