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Fine Wind, Clear Morning

Also Known As Red Fuji (common English alternate title)
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Fine Wind, Clear Morning, also known as Red Fuji, is a woodblock print by the Japanese artist Hokusai, part of his series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji and dating from about 1830 to 1832. It depicts Mount Fuji lit red by the rising sun beneath a clear sky lightly streaked with cloud, with no human figures, boats or other landmarks present, and has been described as one of the simplest and at the same time one of the most outstanding of all Japanese prints.

Facts
Disputed
Year Created
1831 1
The Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series, of which this print is part, is dated only to circa 1830 to 1832 in the source; no more precise year is fixed for this individual print.
Classification
Genre
Printmaking 1
Medium
Polychrome woodblock print (ukiyo-e) on paper 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Woodblock print 2
Connections

Created By

Hokusai, Artists

In Form

Printmaking, Art Forms

In Genre

Printmaking, Art Forms

Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

In Movement

Ukiyo-e, Movements
Sources
1. Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Fine Wind, Clear Morning article, lead section, description clause
    one of the simplest and at the same time one of the most outstanding of all Japanese prints
  • Fine Wind, Clear Morning article, lead section, first sentence
    is a woodblock print by Japanese artist Hokusai
  • Fine Wind, Clear Morning article, lead section, alternate title clause
    also known as Red Fuji
  • Genre reference
    Fine Wind, Clear Morning, also known as Red Fuji, is a woodblock print by the Japanese artist Hokusai, part of his series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji and dating from about 1830 to 1832.
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2. Fine Wind, Clear Morning (Wikipedia)
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Fine Wind, Clear Morning (Japanese: 凱風快晴, Hepburn: Gaifū kaisei; literally South Wind, Clear Sky), also known as Red Fuji (赤富士, Akafuji), is a woodblock print by Japanese artist Hokusai (1760-1849), part of his Thirty-six Views of
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