Komogatake

Komagatake — the "horse's peak," a name shared by several Japanese mountains, including a prominent summit in the Kiso Valley of the Southern Alps — appears in this 1929 print as an Alpine landscape rendered in the cool, clear light that Yoshida associated with high mountain terrain. The mountain's silhouette and the surrounding landscape below the treeline would have been familiar to Yoshida from his many months spent in the Japanese Alps, and his treatment here draws on the visual vocabulary he developed for the Alpine series while applying it to a peak with its own distinctive character. The print demonstrates his skill at differentiating individual peaks through the specifics of their rock formations, snow patterns, and relationship to the sky.