Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji

***Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji*** is a group of woodblock prints by Hokusai, a Japanese artist. The prints show Mount Fuji as seen from many different places. The prints were very successful, and Hokusai made ten more after the first thirty-six. The prints were made in the 1830s.

_The Great Wave off Kanagawa_, one of Hokusai's most popular prints, is a part of the series. _Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji_ has been called Hokusai's "colour-print masterpiece".

## Process

Hokusai started making each print by drawing it on paper. It was glued onto a wood block, to help carve the drawing into the wood. The block was then covered with colored ink, and put onto paper to make the print. For each color on a print, Hokusai had to make a different block.

The first prints in the series were made with shades of blue ink. After the series was popular, versions of each print with many colors were made. Over one hundred prints were planned, but only forty-six were made.

Hokusai later made a book named _One-Hundred Views of Mount Fuji_. It was published around 1835. It had drawings of one-hundred different views of Mount Fuji in it.

### First thirty-six prints

|No.|width="150px"|Image|English title|Japanese title|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="center"|1||_The Great Wave off Kanagawa_|_Kanagawa oki nami-ura_|
|align="center"|2||_Fine Wind, Clear Morning_, also known as _South Wind, Clear Sky_ or _Red Fuji_|_Gaifū kaisei_|
|align="center"|3||_Thunderstorm Beneath the Summit_|_Sanka hakuu_|
|align="center"|4||_Under Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa_|_Fukagawa Mannen-bashi shita_|
|align="center"|5||_Sundai, Edo_|_Tōto sundai_|
|align="center"|6||Cushion Pine at Aoyama|_Aoyama enza-no-matsu_|
|align="center"|7||_Senju, Musashi But_|_Bushū Senju_|
|align="center"|8||_Inume Pass, Kōshū_|_Kōshū inume-tōge_|
|align="center"|9||Fuji View Field in Owari Province|_Bishū Fujimigahara_|
|align="center"|10||Ejiri in Suruga Province|_Sunshū Ejiri_|
|align="center"|11||A sketch of the Mitsui shop in Suruga in Edo (a city that is now called Tokyo)|_Kōto Suruga-cho Mitsui Miseryakuzu_|
|align="center"|12||Sunset across the Ryōgoku bridge from the bank of the Sumida River at Onmayagashi|_Ommayagashi yori ryōgoku-bashi yūhi mi_|
|align="center"|13||Sazai hall – Temple of Five Hundred Rakan|_Gohyaku-rakanji Sazaidō_|
|align="center"|14||Tea house at Koishikawa. The morning after a snowfall|_Koishikawa yuki no ashita_|
|align="center"|15||Shimomeguro|_Shimomeguro_|
|align="center"|16||Watermill at Onden|_Onden no suisha_|
|align="center"|17||Enoshima in Sagami Province|_Soshū Enoshima_|
|align="center"|18||_Shore of Tago Bay, Ejiri at Tōkaidō_|_Tōkaidō Ejiri tago-no-uraryakuzu_|
|align="center"|19||Yoshida at Tōkaidō|_Tōkaidō Yoshida_|
|align="center"|20||The Kazusa Province sea route|_Kazusa no kairo_|
|align="center"|21||Nihonbashi bridge in Edo|_Edo Nihon-bashi_|
|align="center"|22||_Barrier Town on the Sumida River_|_Sumidagawa Sekiya no sato_|
|align="center"|23||Bay of Noboto|_Noboto-ura_|
|align="center"|24||The lake of Hakone in Sagami Province|_Sōshū Hakone kosui_|
|align="center"|25||Mount Fuji reflects in Lake Kawaguchi, seen from the Misaka Pass in Kai Province|_Kōshū Misaka suimen_|
|align="center"|26||Hodogaya on the Tōkaidō|_Tōkaidō Hodogaya_|
|align="center"|27||_Tama River in Musashi Province_|_Bushū Tamagawa_|
|align="center"|28||Asakusa Hongan-ji temple in the Eastern capital [Edo]|_Tōto Asakusa honganji_|
|align="center"|29||Tsukuda Island in Musashi Province|_Buyō Tsukuda-jima_|
|align="center"|30||Shichiri Beach in Sagami Province|_Soshū Shichiri-ga-hama_|
|align="center"|31||Umezawa in Sagami Province|_Soshū umezawanoshō_|
|align="center"|32||_Kajikazawa in Kai Province_|_Kōshū Kajikazawa_|
|align="center"|33||Mishima Pass in Kai Province|_Kōshū Mishima-goe_|
|align="center"|34||Mount Fuji from the mountains of Tōtōmi|_Tōtōumi sanchū_|
|align="center"|35||_A View of Mount Fuji Across Lake Suwa_ (Lake Suwa in Shinano Province)|_Shinshū Suwa-ko_|
|align="center"|36||Ushibori in Hitachi Province|_Jōshū Ushibori_|

### Ten prints made later

|No.|width="140px"|Image|English title|Japanese title|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="center"|1||Goten-yama-hill, Shinagawa on the Tōkaidō|_Tōkaidō Shinagawa Goten'yama no Fuji_|
|align="center"|2||Honjo Tatekawa, the timberyard at Honjo, Sumida|_Honjo Tatekawa_|
|align="center"|3||Pleasure District at Senju|_Senju Hana-machi Yori Chōbō no Fuji_|
|align="center"|4||Nakahara in Sagami Province|_Sōshū Nakahara_|
|align="center"|5||Ōno Shinden in Suruga Province|_Sunshū Ōno-shinden_|
|align="center"|6||Climbing on Fuji|_Shojin tozan_|
|align="center"|7||The Tea plantation of Katakura in Suruga Province|_Sunshū Katakura chaen no Fuji_|
|align="center"|8||The Fuji from Kanaya on the Tōkaidō|_Tōkaidō Kanaya no Fuji_|
|align="center"|9||Dawn at Isawa in Kai Province|_Kōshū Isawa no Akatsuki_|
|align="center"|10||The back of Fuji from the Minobu river|_Minobu-gawa ura Fuji_|

## Related pages

- _The Great Wave off Kanagawa_
- _Fine Wind, Clear Morning_