Pagoda in Itakura

Itakura, in southern Gunma Prefecture, is the seat of the Raiden Shrine and contains religious architecture set within a surrounding agricultural landscape. The print likely depicts a tiered pagoda placed within or adjacent to a band of trees, with the structure's vertical axis providing a counterpoint to horizontal terrain. Fujita's typical compositional approach reduces the pagoda's tiered roof eaves to a stack of simple geometric forms, consistent with his broader practice of distilling landscape elements to their essential structure. The mokuhanga technique—worked on cherry blocks with hand-applied baren pressure on washi—allows the wood grain to register subtly within flat coloured areas, contributing surface texture independent of pictorial detail. The colour scheme is likely restrained, possibly paired with bokashi in the sky or surrounding foliage. The print sits within a small subset of his work treating built religious architecture rather than purely natural subjects.