Morning after the Snow at Koishikawa in Edo
Original title
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
- Accession
- JP1330
- Credit
- Rogers Fund, 1922
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1849. The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 through its Open Access programme.
- Description
- From the upper room of a teahouse on a snowy hill, a group of people look out across white rooftops toward Mount Fuji, small and snow-capped on the horizon, under a deep, graded blue sky.
- Image
- 1600 × 1097
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009006
coldlibrary.com/g/009006 - Credit line
- Katsushika Hokusai, Morning after the Snow at Koishikawa in Edo, c. 1830–32. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009006
From Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, the series that includes the Great Wave. Here the mountain is a small white shape far away, and the real subject is the moment after a snowfall when people go to the window to look. The blue is Prussian blue, then a newly imported pigment, which let Hokusai print skies this deep.
