Teahouse at Koishikawa the morning after a snowfall

This ukiyo-e woodblock print was one of Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, the series that first made the artist famous in his home country of Japan. 

Here, we can see Hokusai's shifting focus from the usual ukiyo-e subjects of actors and courtesans to more of the gorgeous Japanese landscape. In this particular print, however, the change is not too far: during the Edo period when Hokusai worked, "tea house" could refer to an establishment where couples could go for privacy, or where geishas could be found. These places served tea only incidentally.