This [oban](/glossary/oban)-format print from the Fugaku sanjurokkei series depicts the view across the Sumida River from Ommayagashi, a riverside embankment near the Bakurocho horse stables, toward the Ryogoku Bridge at dusk. Fuji appears as a silhouetted cone in the far distance against a warm twilight sky rendered through graduated [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) in orange and yellow. Flat-bottomed riverboats crowd the foreground water, their masts and rigging creating vertical rhythms against the horizontal wash of the river. The bridge, reduced to a thin dark arc at mid-distance, anchors the composition's recession. The print uses Prussian blue for the water, a pigment Hokusai adopted after its introduction to Japan in the early 1820s, which gives the river an unusual luminosity relative to the warm sunset tones above.
1821
Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; surimono shikishiban
1822
Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
1822
Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
c. 1832
Color woodblock print; oban
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Fuji from Ommayagashi with Twilight over Ryogoku Bridge (Ommayagashi yori ryogokubashi sekiyo o miru), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei) was created by Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎).
Fuji from Ommayagashi with Twilight over Ryogoku Bridge (Ommayagashi yori ryogokubashi sekiyo o miru), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei) depicts landscapes, bridges, and night scenes, set at Mount Fuji.