Fudo Hill, Lake Yamanaka (Yamanakako, Fudozaka)
by Kawase Hasui
- Date:
- 1936
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
by Kawase Hasui
River, lake, and coastal scenes form the largest single category in Hasui's output — steady, popular subjects with consistent demand. Value is driven primarily by edition period (pre-war vs. postwar lifetime vs. posthumous), condition, and the presence of seasonal atmospheric effects. Night and rain variants of water scenes command 20–40% premiums over comparable daytime views. Pre-war lifetime editions bearing the Watanabe copyright seal (A through G types, 1926–1944) are the most desirable.
Fudo Hill at Lake Yamanaka, published in 1936, depicts the Fudo-zaka (Fudo slope or hill) at Lake Yamanaka — the largest and highest of the Fuji Five Lakes, situated on the mountain's northeastern flank — with Fuji prominent in the background above the lake's northern shore. Fudo Hill's position beside the lake gave Hasui a mid-ground landscape element — the wooded slope dedicated to Fudo-myoo, the immovable Buddhist deity of fire and water — between the lake's surface and the mountain's cone. The bokashi sky gives the composition the atmospheric depth needed to convey the elevated altitude and the mountain's scale.
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Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Fudo Hill, Lake Yamanaka (Yamanakako, Fudozaka) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1936.
Fudo Hill, Lake Yamanaka (Yamanakako, Fudozaka) uses Bokashi, on color woodblock print; oban.
Fudo Hill, Lake Yamanaka (Yamanakako, Fudozaka) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1936).
Fudo Hill, Lake Yamanaka (Yamanakako, Fudozaka) depicts rivers & lakes.
