Art Archive • Hokusai
Ukiyo-e
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
5-work set
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
冨嶽三十六景
The same peak seen from between waves, from inside a barrel, beneath thunderclouds — viewpoint itself becomes the subject.
- Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave)
- South Wind, Clear Sky (Red Fuji)
- Rainstorm Beneath the Summit
- Ejiri in Suruga Province
- Reflection in Lake Misaka, Kai Province
- Shichiri Beach in Sagami Province
- Tama River in Musashi Province
- The Lake at Hakone in Sagami Province
- Fuji Seen Through the Fujimigahara Barrel
- Tsukudajima in Musashi Province
- In the Mountains of Tōtōmi Province
- View of the Evening Glow at Ryōgoku Bridge from the Onmaya Embankment
A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces
諸国瀧廻り
Falling water broken into countless carved lines — motion and energy pressed directly into the woodblock.
- Rōben Waterfall at Ōyama in Sagami Province
- The Amida Falls in the Far Reaches of the Kisokaidō Road
- Kirifuri Waterfall at Kurokami Mountain in Shimotsuke
- Kiyotaki Kannon Waterfall at Sakanoshita on the Tōkaidō
- Yōrō Waterfall in Mino Province
- The Waterfall Where Yoshitsune Washed His Horse at Yoshino
- Ono Waterfall on the Kisokaidō
- The Falls at Aoigaoka in the Eastern Capital
Remarkable Views of Bridges
諸国名橋奇覧
Arches and straight spans pushed to the foreground as geometric form, merging landscape with built structure.
- Kintai Bridge in Suō Province
- Fukui Bridge in Echizen Province
- Ancient View of Yatsuhashi in Mikawa Province
- Yahagi Bridge at Okazaki on the Tōkaidō
- Tenman Bridge at Settsu Province
- Old View of the Boat-bridge at Sano in Kōzuke Province
- Togetsu Bridge at Arashiyama in Yamashiro
- The Hanging-cloud Bridge at Mount Gyōdō near Ashikaga
- The Suspension Bridge on the Border of Hida and Etchū Provinces
- The Arched Bridge at Kameido Tenjin Shrine
- Tenpōzan at the Mouth of the Aji River in Settsu Province