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Daisen Hoki in the distance by Oda Kazuma — Japanese Woodblock print

Daisen Hoki in the distance

by Oda Kazuma

Medium:
Woodblock print
Image courtesy of
Japanese Art Open Database

Description

Mount Daisen—the volcanic peak in present-day Tottori Prefecture that formed the heart of the historical Hoki Province—rises to 1,729 meters and has been a subject of reverent landscape depiction since the Edo period. Oda's print renders the mountain from a distance, likely across flat coastal or agricultural land characteristic of the Tottori plain, with the peak appearing above a middle ground of fields, villages, or coastal features. The composition follows a classical meisho-e structure: foreground locating detail, receding middle ground, and the mountain as organizing horizon element. Daisen's asymmetrical profile differs visually from Fuji, and Oda's documentary instinct likely preserves that specificity rather than imposing a generic mountain formula.

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Daisen Hoki in the distance was created by Oda Kazuma (織田一磨).