Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)
Fuji from Gotenyama at Shinagawa on the Tōkaidō
東海道品川御殿山の不二 · Tōkaidō Shinagawa Gotenyama no Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1830–32
What it is
Cherry trees in full blossom crown the hill at Gotenyama, picnickers gather under them, and Fuji appears across the water beyond.
Why it matters
One of the ten designs added after the series’ first success, it puts the mountain behind a spring crowd at Shinagawa, on the Tōkaidō out of Edo.
What to notice
The blossom is printed as soft clouds of pink, and the mountain sits in the gap between two of them.
Spring is a crowd on a hill, and the mountain waits at the edge of it.
The record
- Artist
- Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760–1849)
- Series
- Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)
- Date
- c. 1830–32
- Publisher
- Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō)
- Medium
- woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art · JP1284
Impression note. The series sold well and was printed in large numbers. The first sheets lean on the newly imported Prussian blue, outlines included; later printings add colours and soften the key block. This is the largest clean open impression of the design the Met holds. Impression variance is real — printings differ in wiping and fading — and choosing the finest openly held impression is the curatorial act.
Public domain; faithfully reproduced.
Bring it home
Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm.
From the same series
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave)Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1830–32
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)Fine Wind, Clear Morning (Red Fuji)Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1830–32
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)Thunderstorm Beneath the SummitKatsushika Hokusai · c. 1830–32
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)Kajikazawa in Kai ProvinceKatsushika Hokusai · c. 1830–32The road at your moment — Painted Earth’s ukiyo-e style pack.