Katsushika Hokusai published Mishima Pass in Kai Province in 1830-32 as part of his Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series, the project that established him as the most internationally-influential Japanese artist of the nineteenth century. The print shows a single ancient cedar tree at the centre of the composition with three travellers attempting to encircle its enormous trunk on the road to Mount Fuji.

The second-most famous print in the Thirty-Six Views — Fuji at dawn in late summer, the cone of the mountain turning vermilion against an aquamarine sky. Reading Hokusai's quiet masterpiece.