Friends of the mountain
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
"Friends of the Mountain" extends Onchi's mountain series with a subject that combines social warmth with geological grandeur. The "friends" in question may be actual human companions in the mountain landscape, or a more metaphorical relationship between human figures and the mountain forms that dwarf and shelter them. His mountain subjects consistently treated these geological forms as active presences rather than mere backgrounds — the mountain as character in its own right, capable of relationship with the human figures that engage with it.
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.
Friends of the mountain was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎).
Friends of the mountain depicts landscapes and mountains.
