Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji rises snow-capped against a pale blue sky, its lower slopes rendered in purple-grey, framed symmetrically between reddish-brown tree trunks with green foliage clustered at the top edges of the composition. A rolling foreground of yellow-green and olive tones, marked with reddish scrub and a bare sapling at left, leads the eye back toward the mountain. This mokuhanga woodblock print by Gen Yamaguchi uses flat, bold color areas and simplified forms in a bright, clear-weather palette of blues, greens, and browns.