Fuji from Kawaguchimura — 河口村の富士

Fuji from Kawaguchimura (河口村の富士) is a Japanese woodblock print by Kaiseki Jokata, drawn from his series Twenty-Five Views of Fuji in the Four Seasons. The composition frames Mount Fuji as seen from Kawaguchi village, one of the celebrated lakeside settlements on the northern shore of Lake Kawaguchi in Yamanashi Prefecture. From this vantage the mountain rises across the water with little visual interruption, and Kaiseki Jokata uses that openness to set up a quiet dialogue between the rural foreground of Kawaguchimura and the broad, symmetrical cone of Fuji beyond. The print belongs to the long lineage of Fuji series in Japanese woodblock practice that runs from Hokusai and Hiroshige into the twentieth century, and Kaiseki Jokata's contribution sits within the [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) revival of landscape printmaking, where traditional publisher–artist–carver–printer collaboration was used to produce carefully observed, atmospheric views of famous places. The choice of a Four Seasons framing across twenty-five views signals an interest in how a single subject — Fuji — changes under different weather, light, and seasonal conditions, which is one of the defining concerns of shin-hanga landscape work. As a sheet from a numbered series, this design would have been printed with the consistent palette and registration that shin-hanga collectors prize, and it would have circulated alongside other lakeside, mountain, and farmland views of Fuji that Kaiseki Jokata produced for the same project. Catalogued by [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e).org under image record Jokata_Kaiseki-25_Views_of_Fuji_in_the_Four_Seasons-Fuji_from_Kawaguchimura-00036421-040604-F12, the print is a useful entry point for collectors building out a shin-hanga Fuji shelf beyond the canonical Hokusai and Hiroshige sets, and for anyone studying how mid-century Japanese woodblock artists continued to reinterpret Kawaguchi and the surrounding Fuji Five Lakes region.