Fuji from tea farm

Mount Fuji rises beyond orderly rows of tea bushes in this oban woodblock print, the mountain's iconic cone providing a distant focal point above the agricultural foreground. Ito Takashi uses the tea farm's geometric planting rows as leading lines that draw the eye toward Fuji, creating a structured composition that balances cultivated landscape against volcanic wilderness. The green of the tea plants, achieved through careful color registration across multiple printing passes, contrasts with the cooler blues and whites of the mountain. Tea cultivation in the Shizuoka and Suruga regions has been associated with Fuji views since at least the Edo period, and Ito's treatment of the subject updates this pairing for the shin-hanga era. The print grounds Fuji in agricultural reality rather than presenting it as a purely sublime or spiritual symbol.