$500–$8,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Gekko's prolific output makes most of his work affordable. Quality varies significantly.
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.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
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.
