Mt.Chokai

Mount Chokai is the dormant stratovolcano that straddles the Akita and Yamagata border in northern Honshu, its symmetrical cone earning the local epithet Dewa Fuji. Tokuriki's mountain prints draw on his long Mount Fuji series for compositional vocabulary — a single dominant peak against a graded sky — while substituting the local geography of paddy fields, coastline, or Tohoku villages in the foreground. This print likely centers Chokai's snow-capped silhouette with bokashi at the summit transitioning to flatter mineral pigments down the slopes, the lower register carrying foreground vegetation or architecture in saturated nishiki-e color. By the postwar decades, Tokuriki was extending the meisho-e tradition beyond classical Kyoto and Tokaido subjects to include regional peaks across Japan. The print sits alongside his depictions of Fuji, Yari, and the Northern Alps as part of a wider documentation of the country's sacred mountain landscape, one of the central veins of his sosaku-hanga output.