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Look at where the red slope meets the dark forest made of hundreds of small marks, and at the streaks of snow that remain near the summit.
Sometimes called Red Fuji, this view gives the whole sheet to the mountain under rows of small white clouds. The Cleveland Museum of Art, which holds another impression, places the scene at the turn from late summer to autumn, when the mountain turns reddish, and notes that in its sheet the grain of the cherry-wood block printed along with the red. It belongs to Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.
Color woodblock print; oban · 25.7 × 37.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- A Mild Breeze on a Fine Day (Gaifu kaisei), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"
- Artist
- Katsushika Hokusai
- Date
- c. 1830/33
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Dimensions
- 25.7 × 37.5 cm (10 1/16 × 14 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.