Mt Fuji

Mount Fuji as rendered by Imoto Tekiho joins the vast lineage of Fuji images that stretches from Hokusai and Hiroshige to the present day. Every Japanese artist who depicts Fuji must reckon with this accumulated tradition, finding a personal perspective on a subject that has been painted, printed, and photographed from every conceivable angle. Tekiho's woodblock rendering likely reflects the sumi-e influenced approach that characterizes much of the artist's work, potentially presenting the mountain in a more atmospheric, ink-wash style than the crisp, colorful treatments associated with shin-hanga Fuji prints. The mountain's simple conical form suits the reductive aesthetic of sumi-e, where a few well-placed strokes can suggest a 3,776-meter peak with more power than detailed rendering would achieve.