Shotei's landscapes are his most widely available works. Signed lifetime editions with strong color and condition represent good collector value. Post-earthquake reprints lacking signatures and seals are common and trade at lower prices.
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.
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.
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.
