Japanese Alps (Nihon Arupusu)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- mfa
Description
Japanese Alps (Nihon Arupusu)—the mountain range that runs through the center of Honshu, encompassing the peaks of Nagano, Gifu, and Shizuoka Prefectures—was Azechi's spiritual home and the primary geography of his imagination. The Alps designation, applied to the Japanese peaks by the British mountaineer Walter Weston in the 1890s, identified them as comparable to the European Alps in scale and difficulty. Azechi's print of the range as a whole captures the massif's collective identity rather than any single peak.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Japanese Alps (Nihon Arupusu) was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎).
Japanese Alps (Nihon Arupusu) depicts landscapes, figures, and mountains.