Talk:Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji

Print sizes
What are the sizes of the prints? Are they all formated to fit in a portfolio? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nicky Beep (talk • contribs) 00:14, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Too many?
Why is the work called 36 views if actually there are 46 views? --Nikola 02:58, 25 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Money. For example, Hiroshige's 100 Famous Views of Edo was successful enough that it actually went to 120 or something like that, despite Hiroshige's death! It's just like Hollywood and sequels today. --Gwern (contribs) 03:25 25 November 2006 (GMT)


 * Basically, the series sold so well that Hokusai made ten more. JHobson3 (talk) 14:23, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

John Mayer
Wasn't this parodied on one of John Mayer's live albums? (As Is)
 * I'm sure it's been copied, parodied, used as inspiration, and otherwise made reference to in a gazillion different ways. Doesn't make a trivia section necessary. LordAmeth 14:46, 3 November 2007 (UTC)


 * If an individual image has been extensively copied, parodied, and so on, then a "Cultural references" section might be useful as a way of documenting and illustrating just how influential the image has been, after sufficient material has been collected ... but if so, that section would need to be added (with suitable restraint) to the wikipedia page for that individual image The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa (or, in extreme cases, as a separate offshoot wikipage), not to the "36 views ..." page. IMO. PS: I've just looked up the Mayer "cascading bunnies" album art version. Funny! Thanks. ErkDemon (talk) 17:06, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Fyi: The art from As/Is is by Kozyndan, and was originally created as a cover for the magazine Giant Robot (see issue). The image is called "Uprisings", and you can buy a print for $15 (which I did, and adore). :) -- Quiddity (talk) 17:45, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Originals and order
1. If the work was conceived as a collection of 36 pieces, which of the pieces are the original 36? 2. The order of the lists for the English and the Japanese versions of this article do not match. Which is the correct/original order?

ICE77 -- 84.223.76.202 17:32, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

You can see the original order by clicking on each picture. The original number of the picture in the series is included in the description of each image.

For the first 36, here is the result of that. The wiki number is preceded by a # sign. If the original number of the picture in the series differs from the wiki number, it is shown in parentheses following the wiki #. If they are the same, it says "same". For the additional 10, there is a third number following the number in parentheses which is it original number of the additional 10. For example, number 37 shows #37 (39) 3, which means that the number in wiki is 37, the original number in the series overall is 39, and it is number 3 of the additional 10:


 * 1) The Great Wave off Kanagawa #1 - same
 * 2) South Wind, Clear Sky (Red Fuji) #2 - same
 * 3) Rainstorm Beneath the Summit (Black Fuji) #3 - same
 * 4) Under Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa #4 - same
 * 5) Sundai, Edo #5 - same
 * 6) The Circular Pines of Aoyama #6 - same
 * 7) Senju in Musashi Province #7 -same (all of the following differ)
 * 8) Inume Pass, Koshu #8 (9)
 * 9) Fuji Viewed from Rice Fields in Owari Province #9 (10)
 * 10) Ejiri in the Suruga Province #10 (18)
 * 11) A Sketch of the Mitsui Shop in Suruga in Edo #11 (21)
 * 12) Sunset Across the Ryogoku Bridge from the Bank of the Sumida River at Onmayagashi #12 (22)
 * 13) Sazai Hall - Temple of Five Hundred Rakan #13 (23)
 * 14) Tea House at Koishikawa, the Morning after a Snowfall #14 (24)
 * 15) Below Meguro #15 (25)
 * 16) Watermill at Onden #16 (26)
 * 17) Enoshima in the Sagami Province #17 (27)
 * 18) Shore of Tago Bay, Ejiri at Tōkaidō #18 (28)
 * 19) Yoshida at Tōkaidō #19 (29)
 * 20) The Kazusa Province Sea Route #20 (30)
 * 21) Nihon-bashi Bridge in Edo #21 (31)
 * 22) Barrier Town on the Sumida River #22 (32)
 * 23) Bay of Noboto #23 (33)
 * 24) The Lake of Hakone in the Sagami Province #24 (34)
 * 25) Mount Fuji Reflects in Lake Kawaguchi, Seen from the Misaka Pass in Kai Province #25 (35)
 * 26) Hodogaya on the Tōkaidō Road #26 (36)
 * 27) Tama River in Musashi Province #27 (8)
 * 28) Asakusa Hongan-ji Temple in Edo #28 (11)
 * 29) Tsukuda Island in the Musashi Province #29 (12)
 * 30) Shichiri Beach in Sagami Province #30 (13)
 * 31) Umegawa in Sagami Province #31 (14)
 * 32) Kajikazawa in Kai Province #32 (15)
 * 33) Mishima Pass in Kai Province #33 (16)
 * 34) Mount Fuji from the Mountains of Tōtōmi #34 (19)
 * 35) Lake Suwa in Shinano Province #35 (17)
 * 36) Ushibori in Hitachi Province #36 (20)
 * 37) Fuji seen from Gotenyama near Shinagawa on the Tokaido #37 (39) 3
 * 38) The timberyard at Honjo #38 (31) 1
 * 39) Pleasure District at Senju #39 (38) 2
 * 40) Nakahara in Sagami Province #40 (40) 4
 * 41) Paddy fields in Ono, Suruga Province #41 (43) 7
 * 42) A group of mountaineers  #42 (46) 10
 * 43) The Tea plantation of Katakura in Suruga Province #43 (44) 8
 * 44) The Fuji from Kanaya on the Tōkaidō #44 (45) 9
 * 45) Dawn at Isawa in Kai Province #45 (41) 5
 * 46) The back of Fuji from the Minobu river #46 (42) 6  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.16.140.110 (talk) 01:38, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) The back of Fuji from the Minobu river #46 (42) 6  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.16.140.110 (talk) 01:38, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Table
I made this table as like as one in the russian Wikipedia. And now we need a good introduction. Gruznov Mikhail (talk) 23:30, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Marvelous work. Much thanks :) -- Quiddity (talk) 19:47, 12 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I wish you had done it in the proper order. JHobson3 (talk) 14:24, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Image:Nakahara in the Sagami province.jpg
In 36 Views of Mount Fuji (Hokusai), Image #3 needs to be checked. The description in the text does not match the file name, but possibly the image is right. See also Commons:Image talk:Nakahara in the Sagami province.jpg. Fg2 (talk) 08:31, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

You are correct. The name of the JPEG for the third image in the additional 10 would be appropriate for what is listed as the 4th image. However, the image for #3 is in fact correct for the description in the other columns. I would suspect that the original uploader was hasty and typed in the incorrect name when creating the JPEGs. It should probably be corrected, as the image may be used elsewhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.16.140.110 (talk) 01:45, 21 September 2011 (UTC)


 * So why didn't you fix it? I just did. JHobson3 (talk) 14:25, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Costa Concordia
How is it that "A collection of 300-year-old woodblock Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji prints contained in the wellness spa of the Costa Concordia was lost during the collision of the ship on January 13, 2012," if the oldest of the prints, created no earlier than 1826, was at most 186 years old, and the newest of the prints, created no later than 1833, was perhaps only 179 years old at the time of the sinking? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.168.135.149 (talk) 12:13, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Facsimile prints
Is there a reason for all these illustrations being reproductions when early examples exist? The colours are more subtle and subdued, but the original prints are far superior in my, and most commentators' opinion. Could do a side-by-side comparison for each print? Dark Clouds of Joy (talk) 03:10, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Mainly ignorance, and the originals seeming weaker images. Feel free to change them. Johnbod (talk) 04:25, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Cheers. I might do it. Quite a job, mind. Dark Clouds of Joy (talk) 04:42, 3 November 2020 (UTC)