Fuji from a temple balcony
by Ogata Gekko
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Art of Japan
Description
Fuji seen from a temple balcony—the sacred mountain framed by the architectural foreground of a temple veranda—was one of Japanese landscape art's most reliable compositional formulas, the frame-within-a-frame structure organizing the mountain's vast presence into a contemplatable scale. Gekko's version likely shows a specific temple, possibly on the Izu Peninsula or in the Hakone region, where the combination of sacred architecture and Fuji view was particularly accessible.
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Featured in Collections
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Frequently Asked Questions
Fuji from a temple balcony was created by Ogata Gekko (尾形月耕).
Fuji from a temple balcony depicts landscapes, temples & shrines, and mount fuji, set at Mount Fuji.