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Japanese Woodblock Prints
Rainstorm Beneath the Summit, c. 1831
Sanka hakuu, from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji — Katsushika Hokusai
From the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Japanese prints collection · 1831
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Source scan:LOC (Prints & Photographs Division, Japanese prints). Rights statement of the archive: “No known restrictions on publication. Ukiyo-e print by an artist who died before 1930; the impression itself was published before 1930 — public domain in the United States, Japan and the EU.” Original print: Katsushika Hokusai, 1831, 1 print : woodcut, color.. Verified 2026-09-13.
This product is a new archival print made from a restored scan of that print. It is not an original antique and is not sold as one.
The story of this print
Collectors call this one Black Fuji. It is the twin of Red Fuji in Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji: the same mountain from nearly the same angle, but seen at the moment a storm breaks on its lower slopes. Above the cloud line the cone is in sun, printed in graded red-brown with a white cap; below it the slopes go black and a bolt of lightning, cut as a jagged white line in the key block, forks across the darkness.
Hokusai made the two prints as a pair about weather and time of day, and they are almost always shown together. The design is one of the simplest in the series — mountain, cloud, sky, lightning, four colours — and one of the most modern; it was among the sheets that made the Impressionists take Japanese prints seriously when they reached Paris in the 1860s.
The Library of Congress impression is early and well printed, the blue of the sky graded by hand at the top of the block. Restored from the archive’s scan without redrawing, at the sheet’s own proportions.
Printed to order on archival matte paper or canvas, framed in the country of delivery.
Before and after
Left: the archive scan exactly as published. Right: the file that goes to the printer.
Restoration notes
Restoration: trimmed the mount and scanner margins, balanced levels while keeping the paper tone and the flat colour blocks of the woodblock impression (85% of the original colour retained), removed dust and specks, applied gentle sharpening. Toning, wormholes, the printer's registration and the collector's seals are kept where they belong to the object; nothing is redrawn.
Every print carries its archive credit on the packing slip. Paper tone and small imperfections of the original are kept on purpose; nothing is redrawn.
Pairs well with
Hang them together — 10% off the second framed print
Informational purposes only, no warranties, not professional advice. All products are new archival prints made from restored scans of historical maps held by public archives; they are not original antiques. Colours vary by screen and by paper.
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