Cleveland Museum of Art

South Wind, Clear Sky, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji

Katsushika HokusaiLinkedCulture matchlcp-dcc67568e7b7

Date

early 1830s

Medium

color woodblock print

Culture

Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

Department

Japanese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Object ID

111654

Mt. Fuji, Japan’s highest mountain, appeared in most Japanese 19th-century travel literature. Maps sometimes showed its location with a Fuji-shaped icon and indicated where travelers could get the best view of it. Between 1829 and 1833, Hokusai created a print series depicting thirty-six views of the mountain, including this one, sometimes known as “Red Fuji.” The season in this scene is a time between late summer and early autumn, when the mountain takes on a reddish hue. During the printing process, the natural grain of the cherry wood printing block was imprinted onto the paper along with the red-colored dye.

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