Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
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](/glossary/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](/glossary/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.
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.
Mt Fuji was created by Imoto Tekiho (井元荻浦).
Mt Fuji depicts landscapes and mount fuji, set at Mount Fuji.
