Asahi Peak Seen from Mt. Hakuba (Hakubasan yori mitaru Asahigadake), from the series Souvenirs of Travel III (Tabi miyage dai sanshû)

From the third installment of the Souvenirs of Travel series (Tabi miyage dai sanshû), published by Watanabe Shozaburo around 1921–1922, this print presents Asahidake as viewed from the ridgeline of Mount Hakuba in the northern Japanese Alps of Nagano Prefecture. Hakuba's high-elevation vantage affords a panoramic vista of adjoining alpine peaks, and Hasui likely rendered Asahidake as a sharp, snow-streaked summit rising beyond foreground ridges. The Alpine subject demanded a spare palette—white snow fields, grey-blue rock, and a cold sky rendered in deep bokashi gradations—quite different from Hasui's lowland atmospheric work. The Souvenirs of Travel series was an early commercial success that demonstrated the shin-hanga market's appetite for provincial landscape prints, and this mountain subject reflects the series' documentary ambition to record Japan's geographic breadth.