Mount Fuji at Dawn (Akayuku Fuji)
by Kawase Hasui
- Date:
- c. 1942
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
Mount Fuji fills the composition, its slopes rendered in deep indigo-blue while the upper flanks and peak glow red-orange as if catching the first light of dawn. Faint striations mark the mountain's ridges, and horizontal bands of pale green and salmon-pink clouds stretch across the sky and lower foreground, with no human figures present. Japanese text and a red seal appear in the margins; the print is a color woodblock (oban) by Kawase Hasui, titled "Mount Fuji at Dawn (Akayuku Fuji)," 1937.
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![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
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Frequently Asked Questions
Mount Fuji at Dawn (Akayuku Fuji) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in c. 1942.
Mount Fuji at Dawn (Akayuku Fuji) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (c. 1942).
Mount Fuji at Dawn (Akayuku Fuji) depicts mount fuji, set at Mount Fuji.