Hotakayama- Hodakayama

Hotakayama — the name Hodaka Yoshida shared with the mountain peak in the Hida Range of the Northern Japanese Alps — held particular significance for the artist, who was named after it at his father Hiroshi's direction. This print treats the mountain as both subject and self-portrait, the massif's jagged ridgeline rendered in Yoshida's geometric vocabulary of sharp angular forms. The composition likely emphasizes the mountain's silhouette against an open sky, with tonal variation in the rock faces achieved through overprinting rather than gradated [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi), producing hard-edged planes of contrasting color. The print participates in the long Yoshida family tradition of alpine imagery while departing from Hiroshi's photorealistic approach toward the bold simplification Hodaka pursued throughout his career.