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Fuji Hakone National Park — 国立富士箱根 by Kawase Hasui — Japanese Woodblock print

Fuji Hakone National Park — 国立富士箱根

by Kawase Hasui

Medium:
Woodblock print
Image courtesy of
Japanese Art Open Database

Description

The third in a series of prints produced to commemorate or promote the Fuji-Hakone National Park, designated in 1936 as Japan's second national park encompassing both the Fuji Five Lakes region and the Hakone highland area. These prints were likely commissioned for official purposes and present the park's landscapes in the accessible, visually compelling style of shin-hanga. This design may depict a scene from the Hakone highlands—Lake Ashi, Owakudani, or the volcanic terrain of the Kanagawa side—or an alternative Fuji viewpoint within the park boundaries. Hasui's compositional approach in the series would emphasize the natural grandeur that justified the park designation: open water, volcanic peaks, forests, or sulfurous valleys. The Japanese text identifying the park (国立富士箱根) situates the print within official landscape promotion efforts of the mid-Showa period. Printed by the Watanabe studio with characteristic technical refinement.

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