"He": Mt. Fuji, Suruga Province, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"
- Date:
- c. 1772/73
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; koban
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Plate He from Katsukawa Shunsho's series Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari) depicts the Mount Fuji episode of the Ise monogatari, set in Suruga Province. Held in the Art Institute of Chicago and produced in the late 1760s, the print belongs to one of Shunsho's most ambitious early series in nishiki-e, the full-color brocade printing technique that had been perfected only a few years earlier in Edo. The Mount Fuji passage of the Ise tales famously contains the poem about snow falling on Fuji in summer, the protagonist marveling at the spectacle from the foot of the mountain as he journeys eastward. Shunsho condenses the literary episode into a visual scene that combines the recognizable silhouette of Fuji with figures dressed in the furyu fashion of mid-Edo, the contemporary recasting that was the series' organizing conceit. While Katsukawa school renown rested on Shunsho's yakusha-e, this Ise monogatari project demonstrates his interest in classical narrative and his command of an iconography quite distinct from the actor print. The series is iroha-ordered, each plate keyed to a Japanese syllable, and the iroha numbering invited collectors to acquire the full set. The Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari is among the most important of Shunsho's non-actor Edo ukiyo-e projects.
Woodblock print
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, harimaze
Woodblock print
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
"He": Mt. Fuji, Suruga Province, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)" was created by Katsukawa Shunshō (勝川春章) in c. 1772/73.
"He": Mt. Fuji, Suruga Province, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)" depicts mount fuji.