Mt.Fuji from Lake Saiko

Lake Saiko is one of the Fuji Goko (Fuji Five Lakes) on the mountain's northern flank. Views of Fuji from the lakes are a long-running meisho-e subject pioneered in Hokusai's Thirty-six Views and continued through the shin-hanga period. The composition would place the cone in the upper register, partly mirrored in the lake's surface, with the wooded near shore providing a darker foreground band. Bokashi gradation across the sky and water carries the sense of distance, while the mountain's snow line is typically reserved as the unprinted whiteness of the washi. Oda's treatment — distinct from sosaku-hanga contemporaries like Yamamoto Kanae or shin-hanga figures like Yoshida Hiroshi — tends toward simplified planes and rhythmic linework absorbed from his lithographic training and his study of French printmakers, producing a Fuji that feels formally analytical rather than reverential.