Mt Fuji in snow E

A snow treatment of Fuji, designated "E" within Sasajima's serial reworkings of the subject, indicating it sits within a sequence of variant impressions or related blocks. In snow scenes Sasajima inverts his usual tonal logic: instead of the mountain reading as a dark mass, the snow-covered peak is left as unprinted washi or very lightly inked, while the sky and lower slopes are carried in deeper tones. The line where snow meets exposed rock is cut directly into the block as a hard, irregular edge rather than rendered with bokashi gradation. The paper itself becomes the snow — a use of the substrate that depends on the absorbent quality of handmade washi pressed by baren. This print belongs to the broader sosaku-hanga reimagining of meisho-e: the famous-place tradition is preserved as subject, but the production logic is entirely modern, with the artist designing, carving, and printing every block himself in the manner Onchi Koshiro had established.