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Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji · 03 / 14

Rainstorm Beneath the Summit

山下白雨（冨嶽三十六景）

  • Looking Up
  • Mountain
Clear peak above, lightning and storm clouds rolling across the mountain’s midsection — Rainstorm Beneath the Summit. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (public domain).
Katsushika Hokusai. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (public domain).

Hokusai stacks weather vertically: serenity at the peak, violence below. The low-angle looking-up viewpoint makes the mountain feel monumental.

Use the looking-up viewpoint to feel how Hokusai compresses two climates into one silhouette.

Mountain form carries the narrative — follow the color break between fair sky and storm.

Compare lightning line work with the water lines in the waterfall prints.

Extended Japanese viewing notes: 山下白雨（冨嶽三十六景）.

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