Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 54911

Thunderstorm Beneath the Summit

Artist / 作者
Katsushika Hokusai葛飾北斎
Date / 年代
1827-1837
Medium / 技法
浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / honolulu
Digital record / 画像記録
481 × 324 px
Source collection / 所蔵元
Honolulu Museum of Art
Published by / 公開者
森川ミドリ
Rights / 権利
No reusable image license documented
Attribution / 表記
Honolulu Museum of Art

Catalog note / 解説

Thunderstorm Beneath the Summit represents one of the few perfect compositions in the Mount Fuji series. Together with Under the Wave Off Kanagawa (cat. 6) and Mount Fuji at Dawn (cat. 7), it forms a trio of masterpieces. These images symbolically express the power of nature in simple designs; by doing so, they make us contemplate the relationship of man to the natural world. The print depicts Mount Fuji in its simplest form. Basically similar in design to Mount Fuji at Dawn, the mountain’s volcanic cone rises starkly, an undulating line describing its left flank. The background consists only of blue sky and ranks of clouds rising from behind the mountain at the midpoint of both its flanks.…

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