Mount Fuji is Japan's most iconic subject in woodblock printmaking, and Asano's rendition brings his characteristically vibrant palette to the sacred mountain. While Fuji prints by Hokusai and Hiroshige command extraordinary sums, Asano offers comparable visual drama at a fraction of the cost. This composition typically sells for $150-$500, making it excellent value for a Fuji subject.
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.
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
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)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
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.
