Mount Fuji with Cherry Trees in Bloom

Mount Fuji with Cherry Trees in Bloom

Katsushika Hokusai

Details

Dimensions
20.1 × 55.4 cm (7 7/8 × 21 7/8 in.)
Origin
Japan
Department
Arts of Asia
Holding institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Image provider
art-institute-chicago
License
CC0-1.0
Credit
Gift of Helen C. Gunsaulus

Art Genome Taxonomy

10 tags

Subject Matter

  • Landscapes Both · 99%

    The title identifies Mount Fuji, and the image visibly depicts a prominent distant mountain within an outdoor setting.

  • Flora Visual · 99%

    Flowering trees, blossom clusters, leaves, and scattered petals are distributed across the foreground and margins.

Visual Qualities

  • Pastel Colors Visual · 95%

    The image is dominated by pale pink, cream, muted green, and gray-brown tones with restrained accents of warmer color.

  • Linear Forms Visual · 96%

    Fine contour lines define the mountain, trunks, branches, blossoms, and long horizontal landscape bands.

  • Asymmetrical Visual · 94%

    Tree masses are distributed unevenly along the edges and foreground, leaving an open interval around the centered mountain.

  • Highly Detailed Visual · 93%

    The print contains extensive fine detail in the blossom clusters, branching structures, bark textures, inscriptions, and small scattered marks.

Medium and Techniques

  • Prints Metadata · 99%

    The catalog classifies the work as a print and identifies the medium as a color woodblock print.

  • Woodcut and Linocut Metadata · 97%

    The catalog identifies the medium as a color woodblock print, supporting the woodcut-based printmaking category.

Time Periods

  • 19th Century Art Metadata · 98%

    The catalog dates the work to c. 1801/05, within the nineteenth century.

Geographic Regions

  • Japanese Art Metadata · 99%

    The work’s place of origin is Japan, and the catalog identifies its cultural or stylistic classification as Japanese.

Source & rights

Katsushika Hokusai. Mount Fuji with Cherry Trees in Bloom. The Art Institute of Chicago.