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 Kawaguchi (Kawaguchiko), the most easily accessible of the Fuji Five Lakes, offered the clearest reflected-Fuji views and the most established tourist infrastructure by the early twentieth century. Shotei renders the lake in characteristically atmospheric terms — the mountain above, its reflection below, the sky and water meeting in a continuous tonal gradation created by careful [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi). The specific compositional angle and the quality of light suggest a particular time of day or season from which Kawaguchi's Fuji views are most dramatically achieved.
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.
Lake Kawaguchi was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
Lake Kawaguchi uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.
Lake Kawaguchi was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Lake Kawaguchi depicts landscapes and rivers & lakes.
