Key value factors: Edition order (first Watanabe/Doi printing vs. posthumous reprints) is crucial. Snow scenes, night views, and bijin-ga typically command premiums. Publisher seals and artist signatures authenticate first editions.
A placid lake stretches before Mount Fuji in this quietly composed landscape by Yuhan Ito, the mountain's familiar cone reflected in the still water below. The composition is deliberately simple — mountain, lake, and sky — stripped of anecdote or embellishment, relying on the interaction of reflected forms and atmospheric color to carry its effect. Ito was drawn to this kind of austere Fuji composition, in which the mountain's identity as Japan's most recognized symbol paradoxically disappears into pure landscape.
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.
Mt Fuji and lake was created by Yuhan Ito (伊藤雄半).
Mt Fuji and lake depicts landscapes, rivers & lakes, and mount fuji, set at Mount Fuji.
