Mount Fuji appears in every design of Hokusai’s ukiyo-e series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.
Katsushika Hokusai created the series around 1830–1832, during Japan’s Edo period. Although the title promises 36 views, the popularity of the first impressions led publishers to add 10 more designs, making 46 prints in the commonly known complete series.
The mountain is shown from different viewpoints, seasons, weather conditions, and social settings. The best-known image, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, places Fuji in the distance beneath enormous curling waves. The series helped establish landscape prints as a major ukiyo-e subject.
A common mistake is to treat The Great Wave as a separate standalone painting. It is actually one print in the Mount Fuji series, and its distant triangular peak is the same mountain named in the series title.