Mt.Tsubakurotake

Tsubakuro-dake, the 2,763-metre 'swallow peak' in the Hida range of the Northern Japan Alps, is identifiable by its weathered granite ridge and the boulder formations along the summit approach. The mountain became a popular hiking destination in the early twentieth century and was depicted by printmakers responding to growing interest in alpinism. Maeda's print likely shows the peak as a structural form — angular ridges, granite outcrops, and surrounding ranges — rendered in the flat color planes and visible woodgrain typical of his sōsaku-hanga work. Unlike shin-hanga mountain prints, which often dissolve form into atmospheric haze and bokashi, Maeda's mountains tend to retain hard edges and a clear graphic identity. The subject extends his catalogue of named peaks across the archipelago, drawn equally from his native Hokkaidô (Tarumae) and the Chūbu interior (Yakedake, Tsubakuro, Togakushi), reflecting sōsaku-hanga interest in lived landscape over poetic site associations inherited from Edo-period meisho.