Mt Fuji seen from Mt Kobotoke

The print depicts Mount Fuji as viewed from the heights of Mount Kobotoke, the pass that historically marked the boundary between Musashi and Sagami provinces along the old Koshu Kaido. Hashimoto frames Fuji's conical silhouette against intervening ridgelines, employing the layered spatial recession common in his [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e) of mountain subjects. The composition likely uses [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradation in the sky and distant atmosphere to push Fuji into the background plane while keeping the foreground terrain solid and graphic. As a [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) artist who designed, carved, and printed every block himself, Hashimoto applied his Western-trained sense of structural massing to landscape subjects throughout his career. Mount Fuji appears repeatedly in his oeuvre, treated less as the romantic icon of Edo-period [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e) and more as a geometric form anchoring a measured arrangement of natural masses.