The addition of a horse rider in the foreground gives this Mount Fuji composition a narrative element absent from Asano's simpler Fuji views. The traveler approaching the mountain evokes the long tradition of Fuji pilgrimage prints dating back to the Edo period. Expect prices between $150-$500, with strong impressions showing clear detail in both the figure and the distant mountain.
Mt. Fuji and Horse Rider presents Japan's sacred mountain as backdrop for a solitary mounted figure — a traveler, pilgrim, or warrior on horseback making their way across the plain or pass below the mountain. The juxtaposition of the immense, unchanging mountain with the small human figure in motion creates a compositional statement about scale, permanence, and the transience of human movement against geological time. Asano situates the rider within a landscape that dwarfs them utterly, the mountain's presence making the human journey seem both insignificant and somehow heroic by contrast.
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 and Horse Rider was created by Takeji Asano (浅野竹二).
Mt. Fuji and Horse Rider uses Bokashi, Nishiki-e, and Moku-hanga, on woodblock print.
Mt. Fuji and Horse Rider was published by Unsodo.
Mt. Fuji and Horse Rider depicts mount fuji and animals, set at Mount Fuji.
