Mt. Fuji
富士山
by Takeji Asano
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Unsodo
- Source:
- Ukiyo-e.org (via Artelino)
Description
Mt. Fuji stands alone in Asano's most elemental treatment of Japan's sacred mountain — no lake reflection, no foreground interest, no supplementary landscape, just the mountain itself against sky. His approach to this subject stripped it of the elaborate compositional apparatus that had accumulated around Fuji depictions in the Japanese print tradition, returning to the mountain's essential form: the perfectly symmetrical volcanic cone rising above a plain or sea of cloud. In the absence of other compositional elements, every detail of the mountain's rendering carried greater weight.
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Fuji from tea farm
Woodblock print
Akasaka, Fujikawa, Okazaki, Chiryu, and Narumi, from the series "Famous Places on the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, Five Stations (Tokaido gojusan eki goshuku meisho)"
c. 1830/35
Color woodblock print; oban
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)"
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
Mt. Fuji in Rain (Ame no Fuji)
n.d.
Color woodblock print
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Mt. Fuji (富士山) was created by Takeji Asano (浅野竹二).
Mt. Fuji uses Bokashi, Nishiki-e, and Moku-hanga, on woodblock print.
Mt. Fuji was published by Unsodo.
Mt. Fuji depicts mount fuji, set at Mount Fuji.