Asahigadake from Mount Hakuba

This print shares its subject with Hasui's Souvenirs of Travel III composition—the view of Asahidake from Hakuba's elevated ridge—but likely represents either a recarved edition, a later reprinting with revised registration, or a variant cropping. The northern Alps setting places the viewer above the treeline, where the visual language shifts from the layered atmospheric perspective of Hasui's lowland prints to a more direct confrontation with geological mass. The summit of Asahidake, dusted with permanent snow, rises against a sky worked in cool graduated blue, while the middle ground shows the broken rock and alpine scrub characteristic of Hakuba's high terrain. The absence of human figures—common in Hasui's mountain prints—emphasizes the scale and austerity of the landscape. Printed on washi with traditional pigments, the cold tonality of the composition reflects the actual meteorological character of the location.