Fine Wind, Clear Weather, also known as Red Fuji, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji

The title in the cartouche, Gaifū kaisei, means a gentle south wind and a clear sky. That south wind comes from an old Chinese poem and belongs to early summer. The scene is Fuji alone, its summit still streaked with snow, its slopes reddened in the early sun, under rows of small fleecy clouds. It is one of very few views in the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji with no people in it at all. The design was cut into the blocks once, but every printing came out a little differently, because the colours were brushed onto the wood by hand in the printer's shop for each run. In some impressions the mountain is a soft brownish orange under a pale sky. This Boston sheet is one of the strongly coloured ones, deep red against a deep blue. It is one impression of an edition printed many times over, and the museum holds six impressions of the design, one of them catalogued as a blue variant.