Mt. Fuji in a moonlit night

A nocturnal counterpart to Hagiwara's sunset Fuji prints, this work likely renders the mountain in cool tonal registers — indigo, gray-violet, and silvered white — with the moon as a discrete pictorial element above the conical silhouette. The challenge of mokuhanga's water-based pigments in evoking nighttime atmosphere demands careful bokashi gradation, and Hagiwara's multi-block technique would have allowed him to build up the soft-edged darkness surrounding the mountain while preserving the translucent quality of moonlit air. Lake Kawaguchi and the surrounding Five Lakes region of Yamanashi, where Hagiwara grew up, sit at Fuji's northern base and were traditionally associated with night views of the mountain. The print connects Hagiwara to a lineage of meisho-e treatments of Fuji while filtering the subject through the reductive sensibility of the sosaku-hanga movement, where personal expression and minimal pictorial language displaced earlier ukiyo-e narrative conventions.