View of Mount Fuji from a Teahouse at Zoshigaya (Zoshigaya Fujimi chaya), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fuji sanjurokkei)"
- Date:
- 1858
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Source:
View of Mount Fuji from a Teahouse at Zoshigaya, from Utagawa Hiroshige's 1858 series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fuji sanjurokkei), shifts the great mountain into the daily urban experience of the Edo townspeople. Zoshigaya was a wooded ridge on the western outskirts of the city, and a teahouse perched on its slope was celebrated for offering a clear, uncluttered prospect of Fuji rising above the rooftops and rice paddies of the Musashi Plain. Hiroshige builds the composition around the open veranda of the teahouse, where two women take tea, a third leans on the railing to gaze westward, and the distant cone of Fuji floats in soft pinks and pale blues above a horizontal band of clouds. Cherry boughs frame the foreground at the upper left, dating the encounter to early spring and tying the print to the seasonal poetics of Edo [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e). The vertical format and high vantage allow Hiroshige to nest interior, terrace, garden, plain, and sacred peak within a single layered design, an ambition that gives his late landscape print series its distinctive sense of theatrical depth. The Art Institute of Chicago preserves this impression among its Buckingham Hiroshige holdings.
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.
View of Mount Fuji from a Teahouse at Zoshigaya (Zoshigaya Fujimi chaya), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fuji sanjurokkei)" was created by Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) in 1858.
View of Mount Fuji from a Teahouse at Zoshigaya (Zoshigaya Fujimi chaya), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fuji sanjurokkei)" depicts landscapes and mount fuji.
