Fuji 72

Fuji 72 depicts Mount Fuji, the most heavily worked subject in Japanese landscape printmaking, and the numerical suffix indicates a serial entry — likely the seventy-second variant Kaneko has produced on the theme, or a year-coded edition. Where Hokusai and Hiroshige treated Fuji within [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e) conventions of atmosphere and topography, Kaneko reduces the mountain to its essential silhouette: a flat triangular form, often rendered in a single saturated color against a contrasting ground, with minimal indication of weather, vegetation, or foreground incident. The print is produced by traditional mokuhanga technique on [washi](/glossary/washi), but the visual register is closer to graphic emblem than landscape. Serial reworking of the Fuji motif is itself a continuation of an Edo-period habit — Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views, Hiroshige's One Hundred Views — but Kaneko's iterations function as chromatic and compositional studies rather than as a topographic survey. The Hangaten designation places this within his small-format Fuji output.