（箱根芦ノ湖の富士）

Fuji from Lake Ashinoko in Hakone depicts the caldera lake at the center of the Hakone region, one of the most celebrated viewpoints for Mount Fuji. From Ashinoko's northern shore, Fuji appears across the water with the low hills of the Hakone caldera rim in the middle ground—a composition that Hiroshige established and that later artists continued to revisit. Kiyochika's version likely uses the lake's still surface as a reflective mirror for sky and mountain, exploiting the same interplay of light on water that animates his Tokyo prints. The atmospheric conditions particular to the Hakone highlands—frequent mist, dramatic cloud formation—would allow him to render Fuji as a form emerging from or dissolving into weather rather than as a static topographic feature.