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
What the image shows
A mountain with a snow-capped peak rises against a backdrop of clouds and a blue sky.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore
- Provenance
- (Yamanaka & Co., New York, NY, sold to Edward L. Whittemore) | ?–1930: Edward L. Whittemore [1862–1930], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1930–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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