Fine Wind, Clear Morning (Red Fuji)
c. 1830–1832 · Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and colour on paper · Impressions in many collections, including the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849)
- Year
- c. 1830–1832
- Medium
- Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and colour on paper
- Original size
- approx. 25.7 × 38 cm
- Collection
- Impressions in many collections, including the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji fills the sheet as a single russet triangle, its summit streaked with snow, against a blue sky of small white clouds and a dark green band of forest at the base. The Japanese title, Gaifū kaisei, describes the weather: a clear morning with a south wind, when the mountain is said to glow red in the first sun. Hokusai designed it around 1830 to 1832 for Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi, and it is the simplest print in the series, built from three colours and almost no line. Early impressions show a soft graded red; later ones are flatter and brighter. It is usually paired with the Great Wave as the series' two best-known images.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Three flat colours and almost no line make this one of the easiest prints to live with: a hallway, kitchen or living room at 24×16 in natural wood. The russet mountain warms a white wall; pair with the Great Wave.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Ukiyo-e painting
- Era
- 19th century (c. 1830–1832)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Palette
- burgundy, cornflower blue
- Mood
- calm, sophisticated
- Rooms
- living room, kitchen, hallway or entryway, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, travelers, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×16. Prints at 18×12, 24×16 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — natural wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
The full-bleed edition
The painting printed edge to edge, filling the whole sheet (very slightly cropped to fit).
