Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
"Fine Wind, Clear Morning", along with Hokusai's other print from his acclaimed "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" series, "The Great Wave off Kanagawa", are perhaps the most widely recognized pieces of Japanese art in the world. Both are superb examples of the Japanese art of "ukiyo-e", "pictures of the floating world". Although "ukiyo-e" can depict anything from contemporary city life to classical literature, and Hokusai's notebooks show that his own interests spanned an equally wide range, it was landscapes like this that earned him his fame. The saturated colors and stylized forms in such prints helped inspire the Impressionist and Post-impressionist movements decades later. The "Red Fuji" is esteemed and appreciated higher in Japan than the "Great Wave", which is more well-known abroad.