Landscape and Legend

Katsushika Hokusai

Storm below Mount Fuji

c. 1830–32

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 25.7 × 38.4 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Red lightning flickers over the darkened foot of the mountain as the peak climbs into a summer sky.

• Another version from the same block shows rain falling below the peak.
• The Met counts it among his most celebrated prints.
• The series shows one mountain under changing weather and from shifting viewpoints.

Image: The Met Open Access · Public domain (Met Open Access)