A 2024 print combining a train bridge and mountain into a composite Pacific Northwest landscape titled as a "hiking fantasy"—indicating an imagined or idealized scene rather than a specific location. The genre of [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e) in classical Japanese printmaking often produced views that combined and rearranged landscape elements for compositional effect rather than topographic accuracy. The bridge-and-mountain pairing recalls Hokusai's "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji," which uses engineered structures—wells, scaffolding, bridges—to scale and frame the mountain. Mokuhanga handles the compositional demands of such a subject through multiple blocks: the linear precision of a bridge requires sharp carving and tight registration, while mountains permit broader [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi)-rendered planes. The print belongs to a body of 2024 work in which Spitzack treats Pacific Northwest geography as both subject and source material for invented compositions.
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Woodblock print
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
1926
Color woodblock print; oban
1930
Color woodblock print; oban
2024 spitzack nw hiking fantasies train bridge mountain woodcut print woodblock mokuhanga seattle art artist relief printmaking lino linocut was created by Charles Spitzack.
2024 spitzack nw hiking fantasies train bridge mountain woodcut print woodblock mokuhanga seattle art artist relief printmaking lino linocut depicts bridges, transportation, and mountains.