Mt Fuji seen from Izumo

A second sheet from the Mount Fuji from Izumo subject. In shin-hanga production, variations between impressions are typical: bokashi gradients in the sky and sea differ between printings depending on the surishi's hand pressure on the baren, the dampness of the hōsho washi, and the volume of pigment carried by the brush onto the woodblock. The composition shares with the companion sheet the imaginative geography established by earlier meisho-e of Fuji, in which the mountain is granted symbolic visibility from points across Japan that are in fact too distant for a sightline — Izumo lies on the Japan Sea coast in Shimane prefecture, opposite the Pacific-side cone. The silhouette of Fuji is reduced to a flat tonal area above a foreground passage of coast and pine, executed in nishiki-e polychrome on hōsho washi through the standard shin-hanga workshop sequence: keyblock by horishi, color blocks registered to kentō marks, impressions pulled by the surishi. The print is a less common Yamamura subject, his output being weighted toward yakusha-e of Tokyo kabuki actors.