Mount Fuji seen from Okitsu — a post town on the old Tōkaidō road where the highway ran close to the sea — is shown in the pale light of early morning, the mountain's cone rising above the coastal hills with a clarity that only comes with dawn's still air. The Japanese subtitle 興津の朝富士 names the viewpoint precisely, placing the print within a Fuji-viewing tradition that valued dawn sightings from the Tōkaidō stations. Kiyochika brings the same atmospheric sensitivity to this coastal Fuji view that he applied to his Sumida River night scenes.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Morning Fuji at Okitsu — 興津の朝富士 was created by Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林清親).
Morning Fuji at Okitsu — 興津の朝富士 depicts landscapes and mount fuji, set at Mount Fuji.
