32.Rainstorm Beneath the Summit

Whereas the Mt. Fuji art print ‘South Wind, Clear Sky’ is called Red Fuji, ‘Rainstorm Beneath the Summit'(Sanka Hakuu) is called Brack Fuji. As the Red Fuji, Brack Fuji is also one of the famous Japanese prints.

The white clouds and blue sky spread near the summit of Mt. Fuji where the snow still remains, but the skirts of the mountain are covered with black clouds and the lightning is falling.

The upper side and the lower side of the screen are contrasted with stillness and motion.The height of the viewpoint expresses the magnificence of Mount Fuji.

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Ōno Shinden in the Suruga Province from "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji"

31.Ōno Shinden in the Suruga Province  31. Ōno Shinden in the Suruga Province Ōno Shinden was the newly developed rice field in Edo Period at the current Yoshiwara-shi.  It is a bundle of common reed that the cow with good physique carries heavily. In front of the row, there are the two farm women who shoulder the harvested vegetables like small mountains. The clouds on the right side of Mt. Fuji are dyed in orange. From the appearance that people carry their gather, it ca...

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South Wind, Clear Sky(Red Fuji) from "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji"

33.South Wind, Clear Sky  33. South Wind, Clear Sky  'South Wind, Clear Sky'(Gaifu kaisei, Red Fuji) is as famous as the work of big wave art 'The Great Wave Off Kanagagawa' in "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji". Against the background of the summer mackerel sky, the surface of Mt. Fuji is flushed by the morning sun. The ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai（1760-1849) drew the ukiyo-e woodblock printing of an early morning moment filled with ...

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