Daimonji-yama, from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei)

From the Eight Views of Kyoto album, this oban woodblock print depicts Daimonji-yama, the mountain on Kyoto's eastern edge whose slopes bear the giant kanji character "dai" (great) burned into them each August during the Gozan no Okuribi festival. The mountain is visible from much of the city and serves as a geographic and spiritual landmark. Domoto's composition likely presents the mountain from a vantage point within Kyoto that captures its looming presence over the urban landscape. Outside the dramatic context of the fire festival, Daimonji-yama is a green, forested peak whose cleared character-path is visible as a lighter scar on the hillside. As a Kyoto resident, Domoto would have seen this mountain daily, and his rendering carries the familiarity of long observation rather than the excitement of first encounter.