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.
Lake Shoji (Shojiko), the smallest and most remote of the Fuji Five Lakes, offers a rare combination of intimacy and grandeur — the narrow lake's forested shores giving way to a direct, close view of Fuji's southern face with no intervening terrain. Shotei renders the lake at atmospheric depth, the mountain reflected in the still water while the surrounding forest creates a frame of dark green. The [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) sky treatment above the mountain suggests changing weather, the dramatic lighting that makes Shoji's views among the most dramatic of the Five Lakes.
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 Lake Shoji was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
Fuji from Lake Shoji uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.
Fuji from Lake Shoji was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Fuji from Lake Shoji depicts landscapes, rivers & lakes, and mount fuji, set at Mount Fuji.
