Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Hokusai's woodblock print series shows Mount Fuji from dozens of places, near and far.
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About the series
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji is a series of colour woodblock prints by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, published in Edo (now Tokyo) around 1830 to 1832. It was so popular that ten more designs were added, making 46 prints in all.
Each print places Fuji in a different setting: behind a huge wave, framed by a barrel maker's tub, seen across rice fields or glowing red at dawn. The mountain is often small, while people at work fill the foreground. The series includes Under the Wave off Kanagawa, known as The Great Wave, and Fine Wind, Clear Morning, known as Red Fuji. The prints made strong use of Prussian blue, then new in Japan. Impressions survive in many museums, including the British Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The prints are wide rectangles. The Great Wave and Red Fuji, hung side by side, make a well balanced pair.
