id: 111654 accession number: 1930.189 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.189 updated: 2023-04-23 11:15:52.493000 South Wind, Clear Sky, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, early 1830s. Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849). Color woodblock print; sheet: 25.6 x 37.5 cm (10 1/16 x 14 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore 1930.189 title: South Wind, Clear Sky, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji title in original language: 冨嶽三十六景　凱風快晴 series: series in original language: creation date: early 1830s creation date earliest: 1830 creation date latest: 1835 current location: creditline: Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) technique: color woodblock print department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 25.6 x 37.5 cm (10 1/16 x 14 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signature: Hokusai aratame Iitsu hitsu Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Japanese Prints from the Museum Collection opening date: 1934-09-05T04:00:00 Japanese Prints from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 5-October 28, 1934). title: Visions of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). title: Transformations in Japanese Printmaking opening date: 1984-09-25T04:00:00 Transformations in Japanese Printmaking. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 25-December 30, 1984). title: Gallery One 2012 opening date: 2012-12-12T05:00:00 Gallery One 2012. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland Museum of Art Education Department, 1980: Japanese Woodblock Prints: Themes and Techniques.
Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; December 12, 2004- April 10, 2005. "Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections". * Gallery One Rotation, November 5, 2012 - April 29, 2013. --- PROVENANCE (Yamanaka & Co., New York, NY, sold to Edward L. Whittemore) date: footnotes: citations: Edward L. Whittemore [1862-1930], Cleveland, OH, ?-1930, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1930 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1930-present date: 1930- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: During the printing process, the natural grain of the cherry wood printing block was imprinted onto the paper along with the red-colored dye. digital description: Mt. Fuji, Japan’s highest mountain, appeared in most Japanese 19th-century travel literature. Maps sometimes showed its location with a Fuji-shaped icon and indicated where travelers could get the best view of it. Between 1829 and 1833, Hokusai created a print series depicting thirty-six views of the mountain, including this one, sometimes known as “Red Fuji.” The season in this scene is a time between late summer and early autumn, when the mountain takes on a reddish hue. wall description: Mt. Fuji, Japan’s highest mountain, appeared in most 18th-century travel literature. Maps sometimes situated Mt. Fuji’s icon to designate its actual geographical location and to indicate where travelers could get the best view of this cone-shaped mountain. Between 1829 and 1833, Hokusai created the famous print series depicting thirty-six views of the mountain.

During the printing process, the natural grain of the cherry wood printing block was imprinted onto the paper in red. This image of Mt. Fuji is therefore sometimes also known as "The Red Fuji." The season in this scene is a time between late summer and early autumn, when the mountain takes on a reddish hue. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Howard Conley Hollis. "The Edward Loder Whittemore Collection of Japanese Prints." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 17, no. 4 (1930): 64-66. page number: p. 64-66 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 388 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n408 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.189/1930.189_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.189/1930.189_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.189/1930.189_full.tif