Mt Fuji in Spring from Miho
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
- Image courtesy of
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
This meisho-e depicts Mt. Fuji as viewed across Suruga Bay from Miho no Matsubara, the pine-covered spit in Shizuoka Prefecture long celebrated in Japanese poetry and painting. The spring season is signaled through atmospheric haze softening the mountain's profile and the pale, warm tonality of the sky. Ishikawa likely positioned a foreground screen of gnarled coastal pines—characteristic of the Miho shoreline—against the open water, with Fuji rising in the middle distance. Bokashi gradations across the sky and water surface demonstrate the printer's control over gradual color bleed on dampened washi. The composition draws on a well-established meisho tradition connecting Miho with Fuji, revisited here in the shin-hanga idiom with naturalistic color and Western spatial recession rather than the flattened perspective of earlier ukiyo-e landscape prints.
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Mt Fuji in Spring from Miho was created by Ishikawa Toraji (石川寅治).
Mt Fuji in Spring from Miho depicts landscapes.