Newly Published Perspective Picture of Mount Fuji in Spring from Tagonoura (Shinpan uki-e Tagonoura haru no Fuji)
- Date:
- c. 1772/89
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
An [oban](/glossary/oban) color woodblock print at the Art Institute of Chicago, dated c. 1772/89, this design is part of Toyoharu's 'Newly Published Perspective Picture' (Shinpan uki-e) series, in which each sheet is openly marketed as a new experiment in perspective drawing. The subject is Mount Fuji seen in spring from Tagonoura, the stretch of Suruga Bay coast that has been one of the great Fuji viewing sites since the eighth-century Manyoshu. Toyoharu sets the cone of Fuji at the centre of the recession, with the curve of the shoreline, pine groves, fishing boats, and travellers receding along orthogonals that converge near the mountain. The print is a direct ancestor of the famous Tokaido and Fuji views of the nineteenth century: Hokusai's 'Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji' (1830s) and Hiroshige's various Fuji and Tagonoura designs all build on the conviction, established by Toyoharu in prints like this one, that European perspective could be made to feel like an ordinary part of the Japanese visual repertoire when applied to native landscape.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Newly Published Perspective Picture of Mount Fuji in Spring from Tagonoura (Shinpan uki-e Tagonoura haru no Fuji) was created by Utagawa Toyoharu (歌川豊春) in c. 1772/89.
Newly Published Perspective Picture of Mount Fuji in Spring from Tagonoura (Shinpan uki-e Tagonoura haru no Fuji) depicts spring and mount fuji.
