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Hokusai Gallery (Guide)

From Fuji between the waves to lines of falling water and arches of bridges.

Katsushika Hokusai’s landscape prints, centered on Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji — public-domain works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Katsushika Hokusai’s printmaking opened Edo visual culture to the world through compositional experiments and series—above all the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei). Across a career of some seventy years he reinvented his style again and again; the landscape prints of his later years are prized for compositions that earlier ukiyo-e had seldom attempted.

This gallery draws on The Met’s public-domain holdings, centered on Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji—including South Wind, Clear Sky (Red Fuji), Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave), and Storm below Mount Fuji. Planned as thirty-six designs, the series grew by ten more in response to its popularity and finally comprises forty-six prints. Mount Fuji is the stated subject, yet the lives and labors of people placed before it give the cycle its depth. Two sumō prints retain romaji wrestler names for now, because kanji forms have not yet been verified in primary sources.

High-Resolution Download | Curated Best 5

From the works you can view free in our gallery, we selected five that resonated most strongly. Every line and layer of pigment that is hard to see on screen—delivered as high-resolution JPEGs. One ZIP download puts all five in your hands at once. Print them, set one as wallpaper, or keep them for study—the choice is yours.

The artworks themselves remain free to browse in the gallery as ApLink Design watermarked previews, so take your time with the brushwork first. When you find one you want close at hand, welcome it home with this set.

Katsushika Hokusai

Hokusai Best Set — Five Views of Mount Fuji

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