↗Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) · 1833
Driving Rain at Shōno, from Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaidō
Utagawa Hiroshige
Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Image: public domain (CC0) · Museum record & image source ↗
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) · early 1830s
South Wind, Clear Sky, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
- Date
- early 1830s
- Medium
- color woodblock print
- Dimensions
- 25.6 x 37.5 cm (10 1/16 x 14 3/4 in.)
- Country / context
- Japan
- Movement / tradition
- Ukiyo-e · Source ↗
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Pathway
- Japanese art and printmaking ↗
FROM THE MUSEUM
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.
Collection text · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A MOMENT TO LOOK
Start with what you can see: shapes, surface, colour and scale. How might the listed materials affect the way this object was made and experienced?
Looking prompt · an invitation to observe, not a historical interpretation.
