Snowy Morning from Koishikawa (Koishikawa yuki no ashita), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Art Historical Context

In the snowy hush of a winter morning in Koishikawa, a suburb of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), Katsushikaokusai captures the majestic Mount Fuji rising distantly through a veil of falling snow. This color woodblock print, titledSnowy Morning from Koikawa* (Koishikawa yuki noita), is one of 46 designs from Hokusai's groundbreaking seriesThirty-six Views of Mount* (Fugaku sanjurokkei), created around 1830–33. At 25.6 × 37.5 cm in the oban format—a standard large size for ukiyo-e prints—it exemplifies the artist's mastery of Japan's popular woodblock tradition during the Edo period. Hokusai, a pivotal...

About the Artist

Katsushika Hokusai · 1760–1849

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) stands as one of history's most influential artists, a Japanese master who revolutionized the ukiyo-e woodblock print tradition and profoundly shaped Western art. Born in the Katsushika district of Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to an artisan family, Hokusai lived through nearly nine decades of extraordinary creative evolution, adopting over thirty different artistic names t...