Fuji, land of snow

Inspiring many artists, Mount Fuji dominates the landscape of the Japanese archipelago. This figure gave rise to the first transcriptions of atmospheric variations by Hokusai, almost half a century before the light effects of Monet and Sisley. A pure triangle, the Fuji is a strong element in Japanese printmaking and later in young photography. Eternal on its sides, the snow challenges artists to use the paper left in reserve to transcribe the suffocation of nature and its noises, just as the impressionists inspired by "snow country" would do decades later.