$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
Mount Fuji, Japan's most iconic natural landmark, is rendered in this composition designated "D" — the fourth in a series of Fuji studies, suggesting Kitaoka's sustained engagement with the subject across multiple formal approaches. Unlike traditional ukiyo-e renderings of Fuji that often embedded the mountain in elaborate scenic context, Kitaoka's geometric approach tends to isolate the mountain's essential form: the perfect symmetrical cone, the snowcapped peak, the characteristic dark silhouette against sky — stated with modernist clarity.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Mt. Fuji D was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
Mt. Fuji D depicts landscapes and mount fuji, set at Mount Fuji.
