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

Name: South Wind, Clear Sky, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji — Katsushika Hokusai
Uploaded: 2026-11-11T23:18:36Z
Duration: 62 s
Description: One mountain, three main colours, almost no detail — this is the print people call 'Red Fuji'. Hokusai was about seventy when he made it; the landscape series that made him world-famous arrived in the last two decades of his life.

Katsushika Hokusai
early 1830s

One mountain, three main colours, almost no detail — this is the print people call 'Red Fuji'. Hokusai was about seventy when he made it; the landscape series that made him world-famous arrived in the last two decades of his life.

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0:00 Hokusai was about seventy when he made this.

0:07 KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI South Wind, Clear Sky, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji early 1830s · The Cleveland Museum of Art

0:11 This landscape series made him famous,

0:16 so popular that 'Thirty-Six Views' grew to forty-six.

0:22 Yet this one leaves almost everything out:

0:26 one mountain, one band of cloud, three main colours.

0:31 Even the red slope still carries the grain of the woodblock.

0:38 At seventy, Hokusai dared to leave the rest out.

0:48 A float mount keeps the whole sheet and its margins in view.

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore 1930.189. · View the source record