Mt.Fuji

A second Fuji composition recorded under the same title. Twentieth-century printmakers regularly treated Fuji multiple times across their careers, sometimes establishing series in the manner of Hokusai's Thirty-six Views or Hiroshige's later sets, sometimes producing standalone designs that vary the season, the time of day, or the foreground vantage. Two same-title Fuji prints in a single artist's catalogue may therefore represent either separate states of one design or independent compositions—a sunrise versus a moonlit treatment, a near view from the Tokaido versus a distant prospect across Suruga Bay, a winter snowcap versus an autumn outline. The technical vocabulary remains consistent across these treatments: bokashi gradation through the sky, careful registration of the snow line, and economy of color blocks. Without further inscriptional information transcribed from the prints themselves, the relationship between the two recorded versions cannot be specified. The subject is consistent with the landscape direction most often associated with Shusui's name within twentieth-century Japanese print production.