Fuji from Kurasawa
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
From the slopes above Kurasawa, Shotei frames Mount Fuji across a stretch of the Sagami Plain in a view that privileges the mountain's relationship with the inhabited landscape below it — farms, roads, and settlement visible in the foreground while the great cone rises beyond. The Kurasawa viewpoint is one of the less-celebrated but particularly intimate Fuji prospects, where the mountain appears as a neighbor to daily life rather than as an isolated sacred object. Shotei's treatment honors this everyday familiarity.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Fuji from Kurasawa was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
Fuji from Kurasawa was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Fuji from Kurasawa depicts landscapes and mount fuji, set at Mount Fuji.