Fender has continued to celebrate the first anniversary of by releasing a new range of Art Canvas Esquires, which brings a trio of iconic Japanese landscape prints to an format. Art Canvas creations aren’t exactly new, and we’ve seen a few of them in the past – including – 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 range into electric guitar body artwork.
series was composed between 1830 and 1832, and comprises a range of landscape prints that we imagine many of you will immediately recognize – especially , which is used for one of the Art Canvas Esquires. The other models, meanwhile, make use of Hokusai’s and pieces. And they’re all absolutely stunning.
Art Canvas guitars can be an acquired taste, but the picturesque nature of these models just tick all our boxes. You can bet they play like the real deal, too, thanks to their no-nonsense Esquire setup. Said setup includes a standard Esquire spec sheet, comprising one American Vintage ‘58 single-coil.
Sometimes less is very much more. All we’re saying is, Hokusai’s range includes 33 more prints – as well as an additional 10 that were later composed after the series’ initial success – which means there is ripe opportunity for an Art Canvas expansion pack. An Esquire with the artwork of , or one that f.
