Rainstorm Beneath the Summit (Fuji over Lightening), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji

1929, purchased from SATO (Kyoto, Japan) by Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

• Osumi, Takeshige, ed. "Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection Ukiyo-e Masterpieces Exhibition." Tokyo: Bun You Associates, 1999.
• Chazen Museum of Art. "Artscene." Vol. 23, No. 2, July- December 2006. back cover
• Keyes, Roger S., Peter Morse. "Catalogue Raisonné of the Single-Sheet Colour Woodblock Prints of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)." The British Museum, 2015. https://www.dh-jac.net/db1/booksrske/search.php. cat. no. 636 (not illus.)
• Marks, Andreas. "The (Almost) Complete Hokusai." Taschen, 2024. p. 499, fig. 12

• Japanese Masterworks: Woodblock Prints from the Chazen Museum of Art Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 5/6/2016–8/14/2016
• Floating World: Japanese Prints from the Van Vleck Collection, The: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/21/2001–6/17/2001
• Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 10/13/1999–6/30/2000
• Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints : A Preview, The: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/12/1981–5/17/1981

• Asia
• Prints
• E. B. Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints

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