View of the Fujiya Hotel, Hakone, Shôwa period, dated 1959

View of the Fujiya Hotel, Hakone, dated 1959, is a Showa-period Kyoto woodblock by Inagaki Toshijiro held in the Harvard Art Museums collection and surfaced through [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e).org's index of museum holdings. The subject is the Fujiya Hotel, one of Japan's oldest Western-style resort hotels, set in the mountain town of Hakone and long favored by foreign visitors and Japanese travelers alike. Inagaki approaches the building not as a tourist illustration but as a problem in pattern and silhouette, treating the hotel's distinctive tiered roofs, half-timbered facades, and surrounding forested slopes as overlapping shapes to be massed and balanced on the sheet. The 1959 date places the print in the height of Inagaki's mature career, after he had already been recognized in Kyoto for his work in katazome stencil dyeing. That training is plainly visible here: the print reads as a katazome-influenced print, with strong flat color fields, crisp boundary lines reminiscent of paper-stencil edges, and a matte palette of greens, browns, and muted neutrals that recall dyed cloth more than printed ink. The textured paper ground and slightly granular color suggest careful pigment loading on the block, another nod to the tactile values of textile work. As a documented Harvard impression, this sheet has the institutional provenance that collectors of mid-twentieth-century Japanese prints look for when building a focused holding around Inagaki Toshijiro. It also offers a useful counterpoint to his more abstract landscapes, showing how he could anchor the same dye-rooted vocabulary to a specific modern Japanese architectural subject without losing the meditative, design-first character that defines his work in the medium.