Fujiyoshida, Yamanishi

This view of Fujiyoshida in Yamanashi Prefecture places Mount Fuji as the dominant compositional anchor, viewed from the town that sits at the mountain's northern foot. The Fujiyoshida vantage gives a steeply rising profile of Fuji above thatched or tiled roofs, often silhouetted against an evening or dawn sky. Kasamatsu's treatment of Fuji follows the meisho-e tradition reinvented by the shin-hanga publishers, with bokashi gradations producing the soft transition from snowcap to shadowed slope and from sky to mountain. Multiple impressions in graded indigo are typical for the upper register, while the foreground town would be carved with finer keyblock detail. Kasamatsu produced this subject at least twice, suggesting it was issued in different states or printings — a common practice with shin-hanga where publishers reissued popular designs. The print sits within the broader twentieth-century engagement with Fuji as Japan's most depicted landscape, a lineage running from Hokusai and Hiroshige through Yoshida Hiroshi to the shin-hanga generation.