Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji is a central subject in Japanese printmaking, and Yamaguchi's treatment situates the volcano within the abstract idiom of postwar sosaku-hanga rather than the descriptive lineage of Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views or Hiroshige's Fuji series. The print probably reduces the mountain's profile to a single triangular form or a flat-topped silhouette, set against a contrasting field of color or texture. Yamaguchi made several Fuji compositions over his career, each varying the geometry, palette, and surface treatment of what was for him both a national emblem and a formal exercise in essential shapes. The cherry block likely carries deliberate grain or carved relief that prints as pattern through the upper field, while the lower zones may employ bokashi or solid color blocks. The work demonstrates how postwar abstractionists engaged canonical Japanese subject matter without retreating into nostalgia, treating Fuji as a starting point for compositional reinvention.