This print departs from the typical flat, symbolic depiction of Mount Fuji and instead illustrates a three-dimensional terrain. The Fuji reflected on the surface of the lake, however, shows the snow-capped summit with a smooth surface, larger than the actual mountain. Katsushika Hokusai urges us to ask what is real and what is unreal, like a Zen riddle. This is one of the twenty earliest images of Mount Fuji made by Hokusai around 1830–31. He made another twenty-six views of the mountain using the usual black key block in 1833–34. His rival, Andō Hiroshige, who was thirty-seven years younger than Hokusai, published his series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō in 1832–35. Before these two masters established the landscape tradition in printing in the 1830s, ukiyo-e works usually depicted human figures, such as beautiful women and famous Kabuki actors, as well as birds and plants.