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Fine Wind, Clear Morning

Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1830-1832

Also known as Red Fuji, this print by Hokusai shows Mount Fuji glowing red at dawn under a deep blue sky.

One of Hokusai's two most admired prints, showing his skill at bold simplified landscape design.

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Woodblock print of Mount Fuji with a red-brown lower slope and snow-capped peak against a deep blue sky with streaks of white clouds. Dark blue-green forest covers the foreground. Title cartouche in the upper left.
Katsushika Hokusai, Fine Wind, Clear Morning (Red Fuji), c. 1830-1832. Tokyo Fuji Art Museum.

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What it is

This woodblock print, often called Red Fuji, was made by Katsushika Hokusai around 1830–1832 as part of his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series. A copy is held by the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum. It shows the mountain turned red by the rising sun on a clear autumn morning with a southerly wind.

Why it matters

The print is praised for its bold simplicity: solid blocks of colour and shape rather than fine detail. Along with the Great Wave, it helped make Hokusai famous, and in Japan it is often admired even more than the Wave. Its striking colours later helped inspire European Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters.

Look closer

  • What mood does the colour red give the mountain compared to a snowy white peak?
  • Why do you think this print has no named location, unlike others in the series?
  • How do the shapes of the clouds balance the solid shape of the mountain?

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