Mt Fuji from Gotemba

A view of Mount Fuji seen from Gotemba, the town on the volcano's eastern flank that has supplied one of the canonical sightlines on the peak since the Edo period. Toshi Yoshida returned to Fuji repeatedly across his career, working within a tradition his father Hiroshi had refined — Hiroshi's 1926 'Ten Views of Fuji' famously used identical key blocks printed with different color schemes to capture the mountain at different hours. Toshi's Gotemba print likely renders Fuji with bokashi at the summit snow line and tonal gradations through the sky, with the eastern foothills and farmland forming the foreground. Multi-block registration allows the color separation between sky, peak, snow, and foreground that characterizes Yoshida studio output. The print extends a meisho-e lineage running from Hokusai's 'Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji' of c. 1830 through Hiroshi Yoshida's interwar Fuji prints into Toshi's continued engagement with the mountain across the second half of the twentieth century.