Hokusai's landscape prints beyond the Thirty-six Views span a remarkable range of viewpoints and weather conditions. Non-series landscape prints by Hokusai regularly appear in specialist Japanese print sales worldwide.
Looking out over the sea off the Kazusa coast, this print shows Fuji's profile rising from the water's edge, visible to sailors and fishermen working the approaches to Edo Bay. The seaward view of Fuji, distant and commanding across open water, offers one of the series' most elemental confrontations between the mountain's solidity and the restless, light-fractured surface of the Pacific.
1821
Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; surimono shikishiban
1822
Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
1822
Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
c. 1832
Color woodblock print; oban
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Fuji from the Sea off Kazusa #30 was created by Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎).
Fuji from the Sea off Kazusa #30 depicts landscapes, seascapes, and mount fuji, set at Mount Fuji.