Mountain

An unspecified mountain subject, sitting alongside Sasajima's identified Fuji studies and his more numerous Buddhist architectural prints. Without a place-name in the title, the image likely treats the mountain as a generalized form rather than a specific peak — consistent with Sasajima's tendency to abstract his subjects into their carved essentials. The composition is most likely resolved into a small number of flat tonal zones: a dark, broadly carved mountain mass; a quieter foreground; and a sky in which the plank's woodgrain reads as horizontal striation across the print. Carving marks are left visible rather than smoothed, and the impression is taken on absorbent washi by hand-baren in the sosaku-hanga manner Sasajima maintained throughout his career. The print reflects the same disciplined, additive process he applied to the temples of Nara and Kyoto — a single artist designing, cutting, and printing each block — applied here to landscape rather than architecture.