Mt Fuji From Yuimachi at Suruga

Viewed from Yui-machi on the Suruga coast, this print places Mt Fuji across the wide arc of Suruga Bay, one of the deepest bays in Japan. The elevated Satta Pass vantage was a celebrated stopping point along the Tokaido road, familiar from Hiroshige's Fifty-three Stations series, and Hasui's treatment draws on that meisho-e tradition while applying shin-hanga's naturalistic palette. The composition balances the mountain's distant symmetrical cone against a broad water expanse, using the horizon line to establish scale. Graduated sky bokashi and carefully modulated blue water blocks demonstrate the technical precision of Watanabe Shozaburo's print atelier. Coastal pines or rocky outcroppings in the foreground would anchor the composition spatially. This first-referenced impression of the design provides the baseline state against which variant impressions can be compared.