Mount Fuji

This is the second of Yamaguchi's compositions taking Mount Fuji as subject, and the variation across his Fuji prints registers his sustained interest in extracting different formal possibilities from a single motif. Where one print might concentrate the mountain into a sharply geometric apex, another might dissolve its outline into bands of bokashi, and a third might place the mountain off-center against an asymmetric ground. The mokuhanga technique --- multiple block impressions on washi with mineral or oil-based pigments --- allowed Yamaguchi to introduce modulated color and surface texture without resorting to descriptive shading. Treating the same subject across multiple prints connects him to the older Edo-period tradition of variant series while reframing the practice in modernist terms: the motif is not exhausted by repetition but reveals new structural possibilities under each treatment. The print exemplifies how a sosaku-hanga abstractionist could approach an iconic Japanese symbol as raw material for non-representational composition.