The series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku Sanjūrokkei) is a series of landscape prints by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849).
The term ukiyo-e (浮世絵) translates as "picture of the floating world". Each of the designs show the sacred Mount Fuji - either very visible or sometimes as a small detail in the background. The series is a landmark in Japanese woodblock printmaking of the 19th century.
This project explores the first thirty-six designs of the series and their possible corresponding geolocations, experienced through Google Street Views.
data sources: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Google Maps API, Kotodamaya, and Wikipedia