The companion piece to the Great Wave, and its opposite in every way: no people, no boats, no drama — just the mountain, filling the sheet, flushed red by the low sun of an early autumn morning. Hokusai reduces it to three elements laid in flat bands: a deep blue sky combed with mare’s-tail cloud, the ochre-red cone, and the dark forest skirting its base, with a few last streaks of snow in the gullies. The restraint is the achievement. It is the most confident print in the series, and among the most quietly monumental images in all of art.

Maker: Katsushika Hokusai (1760 to 1849)
Date: c. 1830–1832
Medium of the original: Painting
Original held by: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00612

As chosen: 24 x 16 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	24 x 16 in
Outside size	25.6 x 17.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
12 x 8 in	366	Excellent	Trimmed 0.1%
18 x 12 in	244	Excellent	Trimmed 0.1%
24 x 16 in	183	Good	Trimmed 0.1%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
10 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
14 x 11 in	Wrong shape: a 15% crop
16 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
20 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
24 x 18 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
30 x 20 in	146 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
36 x 24 in	122 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
48 x 36 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
60 x 40 in	73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged