[2] In early autumn when, as the title describes, the wind is southerly and the sky is clear, the rising sun can turn Mount Fuji red.

The lingering remnants of snow at the peak of the mountain and dark shadows encompassing the forest at its base place it very precisely in time.

[3] Mount Fuji's solidly symmetrical shape on the right half of the image is balanced by the delicate clouds to the left, for a striking composition.

[2] Fine Wind, Clear Morning, along with Hokusai's other print from his acclaimed Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, are perhaps the most widely recognized pieces of Japanese art in the world.

Although ukiyo-e can depict anything from contemporary city life to classical literature, and Hokusai's notebooks show that his own interests spanned an equally wide range, it was landscapes like this that earned him his fame.