The original series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji contains thirty-six prints.
Katsushika Hokusai’s series was produced and published in the early 1830s. Each landscape presents Mount Fuji from a different location, season, weather condition, or viewpoint. The Great Wave off Kanagawa is the first and best-known design in the original set.
The title can cause confusion because the publisher later expanded the successful series by adding ten more prints. That brought the complete published run to forty-six images, but the original series itself remained the thirty-six named in its title. The added works are sometimes discussed alongside the original set, which explains why both numbers appear in books and museum exhibitions.
The series was a landmark in Japanese ukiyo-e landscape printing. Hokusai used the newly imported pigment Prussian blue extensively, giving many designs a striking, durable blue tone. Other famous images from the set include Fine Wind, Clear Morning, often called Red Fuji, and Thunderstorm Beneath the Summit.
It should not be confused with Hokusai’s later book One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji, which is a separate work and not a count of prints in this series.