Mt.Fuji seen from Numazu harbour

Numazu sits on Suruga Bay in Shizuoka prefecture, where the coastline offers a clear sightline westward to Mount Fuji rising behind the foothills. Tokuriki likely composed this print with fishing vessels or harbour craft anchored in the foreground, the mountain's silhouette occupying the upper register against a graded sky. [Bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradation in the sky and water surface would soften the transition between sea, atmosphere, and the snow-line on Fuji's peak. As a [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e) (famous place picture), the work continues the tradition Hokusai and Hiroshige established with their Fuji series, updated through the colour palette and printing techniques of mid-twentieth-century mokuhanga. Tokuriki returned to Fuji throughout his career, producing series such as Thirty-Six Views of Fuji that consciously echoed Hokusai's framework. The Numazu vantage was a practical and well-known one, easily reached from Kyoto and Tokyo by rail, and gave him the maritime foreground he often paired with the mountain.