A second design of the same Hokkaido peak, indicating that Maeda returned to Komagatake as a motif worth reworking — a habit shared with [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) peers who treated the woodblock not as a reproductive medium but as a site for variation. Differences between two prints of the same title typically register in season, weather, vantage, or color register: a winter view emphasizes the snow line on the volcano's flanks; a summer view brings the foreground vegetation of the Oshima Peninsula forward. Sosaku-hanga practice allowed the artist to test such variants directly, since carving and printing remained in his own hands rather than a publisher's. The technical choices in a second version — fewer or more blocks, deeper or shallower [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi), harder or softer [baren](/glossary/baren) strokes — track the artist's reconsideration of the subject. Komagatake's truncated cone, scarred by repeated eruptions, gave Maeda a distinctively Hokkaido silhouette absent from the Honshu landscape canon.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Mt.Komagatake was created by Maeda Masao (前田政雄).
Mt.Komagatake depicts mountains.
