Fuji From Lake Ashi (Morning View) — 芦ノ湖の富士（朝の景）

This print is a further impression of Maeda's composition depicting Mount Fuji across Lake Ashi at morning, one of the artist's treatments of a canonical Japanese landscape subject reinterpreted through the self-expressive ethics of sosaku-hanga. The composition centers on the geometry of Fuji's symmetrical profile above a horizontal water surface, a pairing that has structured meisho-e imagery of this site since the Edo period. Maeda's engagement with the subject is distinguished by his training under Hiratsuka Un'ichi, whose emphasis on direct carving produced a line quality more raw and assertive than that of commercially carved shin-hanga blocks. The morning hour invites restrained, cool color — pale blues, grays, and the muted ochres of the mountain's lower flanks still in shadow. As with the other impressions of this design, minor variations in color tone or paper texture mark this as the product of hand-printing rather than mechanical reproduction.