Hokusai’s Great Wave is one of 46 prints of Mount Fuji – seeing them together changes everything

By Dominik Havsteen-Franklin, Professor of Arts Psychotherapies & Creative Health, Brunel University of London

When I first saw Katsushika Hokusai’s Clear Day with a Southern Breeze (also known as Red Fuji, 1830-1833), I was struck by its lustrous red resonating against the receding blue of the sky. Clouds align gently in an almost humorous formation. Near the peak of the mountain, are creases of snow. At its foot we are drawn to a multitude of tiny trees amassed in chorus. Easy to overlook, they change the picture. The great mountain becomes itself in relation to everything that surrounds it.

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