Mount Fuji (富士山)

173 prints by 49 artists

About Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji, written Fuji-san in Japanese and rising to 3,776 meters on the boundary of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures southwest of Tokyo, is the highest peak in Japan and the principal sacred mountain of the country's visual tradition. Geologically a young composite volcano whose present cone has formed across the past ten thousand years, Fuji last erupted in 1707-1708 in the Hoei event, which deposited ash across the Kanto plain and formed the asymmetrical Hoei crater on the mountain's southeastern flank, and the mountain has remained quiet through the entire ukiyo-e and shin-hanga periods, allowing successive generations of printmakers to treat the cone as an essentially stable formal motif. The cult of Fuji as a sacred mountain reaches deep into the prehistoric and classical periods, with Shinto associations to the goddess Konohanasakuya-hime enshrined at the Fuji Sengen shrines, Buddhist associations through the Shugendo tradition of mountain pilgrimage, and from the seventeenth century onward the popular Fuji-ko confraternities, lay associations of pilgrims and devotees centered in Edo that organized seasonal climbs through the established northern and southern ascent routes from Yoshida, Subashiri, Suyama, and Murayama. By the late Edo period the mountain stood as a national symbol legible to viewers of every region. For Japanese printmaking the canonical statement is Katsushika Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei), published in vertical and horizontal landscape format in colored woodblock by Eijudo (Nishimuraya Yohachi) from approximately 1830 to 1832, which expanded with ten additional sheets to comprise forty-six designs in total. The series includes The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa-oki nami-ura), Fine Wind Clear Morning (Gaifu kaisei, popularly called Red Fuji), Rainstorm Beneath the Summit (Sanka haku-u), and views from points as varied as Mishima Pass, Lake Suwa, the Tama River, Honganji at Asakusa, and the Surugadai district of Edo, and it stands at the foundation of landscape ukiyo-e as a category. Hokusai followed it with the three-volume printed book One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei, 1834-1835) in monochrome, which further codified the iconography of the mountain across seasons, weather conditions, and angles of approach. Utagawa Hiroshige treated Fuji recurrently across his career, in the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido in which the mountain appears as a backdrop to many of the stations, in the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji issued late in his life by Tsutaya Kichizo in 1858 in vertical format, in his One Hundred Famous Views of Edo where Fuji punctuates the Edo skyline, and in countless individual sheets. The shin-hanga revival took up the subject with renewed seriousness in the early twentieth century. Yoshida Hiroshi produced his celebrated Ten Views of Mount Fuji (1926), a tightly composed series in which the mountain is seen from differing distances and atmospheric conditions including dawn, daylight, evening, and moonlight, and Kawase Hasui returned to Fuji in many individual landscape prints from his Tokaido, Hakone, and lakeside compositions. Tsuchiya Koitsu treated Fuji in evening and snow compositions, and sosaku-hanga artists including Hiratsuka Un'ichi and Yamaguchi Gen treated the mountain in their own creative-print idioms. The visual character of Fuji in prints is built on the symmetrical conical silhouette, the alternation between snow-covered winter mass and bare summer summit, the contrast between distant horizon-line viewing and close foothill encounters, the seasonal phenomena including the morning red glow recorded in Red Fuji and the after-thunderstorm clarity recorded in many of Hokusai's compositions, and the interplay with foreground subjects ranging from cherry blossoms and pine groves to fishermen, travelers, bridges, rice fields, and the white-capped breakers of the Pacific. The mountain remains the most reliably recognized motif of Japanese art globally, and seasonal climbing routes from the fifth-station trailheads operate during July and August, while the surrounding Fuji Five Lakes region around Lake Kawaguchi, Lake Yamanaka, Lake Saiko, Lake Shojiko, and Lake Motosuko preserves many of the viewpoints from which the historical prints were composed.

Prints Depicting Mount Fuji (173)

A Mild Breeze on a Fine Day (Gaifu kaisei), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)

Woodblock print

A Nocturnal Fuji, Lake Ashino (Ashino no yu Fuji)

Ashino no yu Fuji

1935

Color woodblock print

A View of Mt. Fuji

Woodblock print

AKERU FUJI (Mt. Fuji at Daybreak)

Woodblock print

AKERU FUJI (Mt. Fuji at Daybreak)

Woodblock print

Ame no Shimoda Fuji

Woodblock print

Bijin and Fuji

Woodblock print

Boats on shore near Fuji

Woodblock print

CH33- Fuji no Uraba

Woodblock print

CH33- Fuji no Uraba

Woodblock print

Clearing after a Snowfall on Mount Fuji (Tagonoura Beach) (Fuji no yukibare (Tagonoura))

January 1932

Color woodblock print

Daimyō and his Retinue Crossing a Stream in Plain Near Fuji

1753–1806

color woodblock print

Dawn over Mout Fuji and Susaki, from the series "Five Views of Mount Fuji (Fuji goban no uchi)"

c. 1827/29

Color woodblock print; shikishiban surimono

Distant View from beneath Shin Ohashi Bridge (Shin Ohashi kyoka no chobo), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji Seen from the Eastern Capital (Toto Fujimi sanjurokkei)"

c. 1843

Color woodblock print; oban

Distant View of Mount Fuji at Dawn from Hakone

c. 1828/30

Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono

Distant View of Mt. Fuji from the Hakone Mountains

Woodblock print

Enoshima Island in Sagami Province (Soshu Enoshima), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)

Woodblock print

Evening Sky Mt. Fuji

1990–91

Woodblock print, ink and color on paper

Fuji

Woodblock print

Fuji 11

88/120, 1986

Woodblock print

Fuji 68

13/200, 1996

Woodblock print

Fuji 87

150/200, 1999

Woodblock print

Fuji 91

84/200, 2000

Woodblock print

Fuji 94

117/223, 2003

Woodblock print

Fuji and sail boat

Woodblock print

Fuji from a temple balcony

Woodblock print

Fuji from Fujimigahara in Bishu Province

Woodblock print

Fuji from Gumisawa

Woodblock print

Fuji from Hakone

Woodblock print

Fuji from Kanaya on the Tokaido (Tokaido Kanaya no Fuji), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)

Woodblock print

Fuji from Kurasawa

Woodblock print

Fuji from Lake Shoji

Woodblock print

Fuji from Mannenbashi, Fukagawa

Woodblock print

Fuji from Miho

1935

Woodblock print

Fuji from Miho no Matsubara

Woodblock print

Fuji from Mitsu Coast- Fuji from Enoshima — 三津海岸からの富士

Woodblock print

Fuji from Mitsuhama (Mito) in Snow

Woodblock print

Fuji From Mizukubo, Evening Scene

Woodblock print

Fuji from Nakajima Shoen (Banana Garden)

Woodblock print

Fuji from Ommayagashi with Twilight over Ryogoku Bridge (Ommayagashi yori ryogokubashi sekiyo o miru), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)

Woodblock print

Fuji from Shimo Meguro #25

Woodblock print

Fuji from Surugadai, in Yedo

1760–1849

color woodblock print

Fuji from Taganoura

Woodblock print

Fuji from Tago Bay

Woodblock print

Fuji from tea farm

Woodblock print

Fuji from tea farm

Woodblock print

Fuji from the Pass of Mishima, Koshu Province

1760–1849

color woodblock print

Fuji from the Sea off Kazusa #30

Woodblock print

Fuji From Tsukuda Island

Woodblock print

Fuji from Umbrella Maker's Yard in Aoyama

Woodblock print

Fuji from Ushibori, Province of Hitachi

1760–1849

color woodblock print

Fuji in snow

Woodblock print

Fuji in Snow

Woodblock print

Fuji Musume- Wisteria Girl

Not set

Woodblock print

Fuji New Grand Hotel, Lake Yamanaka

c. 1937

Woodblock print, ink and color on paper

Fuji Northern Entrance- Asama Shrine — 富士山北口浅間神社と富士

Woodblock print

Fuji River

February 1933

Woodblock print, ink and color on paper

Fuji-10

2001

Color woodblock print; edition 20/200

Fuji, pines, and boats

Not dated (1936)

Woodblock print

Fujimi Bridge - Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji

Woodblock print

Fujiyama from Miho

1935

Color woodblock print

Fujiyama from Okitsu

1928

Color woodblock print

Fujiyama from Suzukawa

1928

Color woodblock print

Fujiyama from Yoshida

1926

Woodblock print

Fujiyama-First Light of the Sun, from the series "Ten Views of Fuji"

1926

Color woodblock print

Fujiyama, First Light of the Sun

1926

Woodblock print

Funatsu, from the series "Ten Views of Fuji"

1928

Color woodblock print

Hakone: Mt. Fuji over the Lake

Woodblock print

Hara: Roof-tile Reflections of Mt. Fuji

Woodblock print

Kajikazawa in Kai Province (Koshu kajikazawa), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)

Woodblock print

Kiso River Glowing Light at Fuji (Kisogawa yugure no Fuji)

1930s

Color woodblock print

Landscape of trees with Mt Fuji in background

Woodblock print

Large-head Kabuki Portraits: Nakamura Jakuemon as the Wisteria Maiden (Kabuki okubi-e: Nakuamura Jakuemon- Fuji Musume)

Woodblock print

M14- Mt Fuji in mist- mountain pass in front- Variant

Woodblock print

Mishima Pass in Kai Province (Koshu Mishimagoe), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)

Woodblock print

Mitate No.53 - Fuji (Fuji)

2002

Morning at Mt. Fuji (Fuji no Asa)

Fuji no Asa

1936

Color woodblock print

Morning Fuji at Okitsu — 興津の朝富士

Woodblock print

Morning Fuji from Lake Kawaguchi

Woodblock print

Mount Fuji

Woodblock print

Mount Fuji at Dawn (Akayuku Fuji)

c. 1942

Color woodblock print; oban

Mount Fuji at Daybreak (Fuji no akebono)

n.d.

Color woodblock print

Mount Fuji at Lake Ashinoko

Woodblock print

Mount Fuji from Behind, from the series One Hundred Views of New Japan (Shin Nippon hyakkei), Shôwa period, dated 1939

Woodblock print

Mount Fuji from Behind, Shôwa period, dated 1939

Woodblock print

Mount Fuji from Kumoni Izu

1970

Woodblock print

Mount Fuji from Mizukubo

1930s

Color woodblock print; oban

Mount Fuji from Yoshida

19th–20th century

Woodblock print

Mount Fuji in Early Morning from Lake Hakone

20th century

Woodblock print

Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)"

1947

Color woodblock print; oban

Mount Fuji Seen From Miho in Spring

1934

Woodblock print, ink and color on paper

Mount Fuji seen from Suou

Woodblock print

Mount Fuji Seen from the Pass (Tōge no Fuji)

20th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Mount Fuji with a Coating of Snow

1991

Woodblock print, ink and color on paper

Mount Fuji with Cherry Trees in Bloom

c. 1801/05

Color woodblock print; surimono

Mount Fuji, Oshino (Oshino no Fuji)

1942

Color woodblock print

Mt Fuji

Woodblock print

Mt Fuji and bay

Woodblock print

Mt Fuji and lake

Woodblock print

Mt Fuji and Lake Yamanaka

Woodblock print

Mt Fuji and village in spring

Woodblock print

Mt Fuji at Dawn

1959

Woodblock print

Mt Fuji from Lake Yamamaka

Woodblock print

Mt Fuji in autumn with bridge

Woodblock print

Mt Fuji in Spring from Miho

Woodblock print

Mt Fuji Seen from Numazu

Woodblock print

Mt Fuji seen from Yamanaka

Woodblock print

Mt Fuji seen from Yamanaka

Woodblock print

Mt Fuji Seen from Yoshida

Woodblock print

Mt Fuji Viewed from Edobashi Bridge — 江戸橋夕暮富士

Woodblock print

Mt Fuji with sailboats on lake

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji

富士山

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji 11

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji and Horse Rider

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji and Ship - Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji and Shojin Lake

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji and Traveller

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji at Nagao Pass - Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji at Tateho

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji at Twilight from Edobashi

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji D

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji D

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji from Shiraiko Lake - Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji from Tago-no-ura

1920s-1930s

Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper

Mt. Fuji from Takeda Shrine - Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji from Yoshida

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji in Clouds - Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji in Rain (Ame no Fuji)

n.d.

Color woodblock print

Mt. Fuji seen from Nashigahara

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji seen from Nashigahara

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji- Sun Set

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji- V2- Winter

Woodblock print

Mt. Fuji, Clearing after a Snowfall in Oshiono (Fuji no yukibare (Oshiono fukin))

1952

Color woodblock print

Nitta Tadatsune Encounters the Goddess of Mt. Fuji and Her Dragon in Her Cave on Mt. Fuji.

Woodblock print

No Series Mt Fuji

Woodblock print

O Fuji San

1907

Color woodcut

Plum Blossom and the Moon from the Book Mount Fuji in Spring (Haru no Fuji)

c. 1803

Woodblock- printed book

Projection of Mt. Fuji

1990–91

Woodblock print, ink and color on paper

Red Fuji

1967

Color woodblock print

Red Fuji

Woodblock print

Red Fuji (8)

Woodblock print

Seikenji Fuji, from the series "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces (Kohon meihitsu ishizuri kagami)"

n.d.

Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, harimaze

Sekiya Village on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa Sekiya no sato), from the series Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)

Woodblock print

Senju Hana-machi Yori Chobo no Fuji (Mount Fuji Seen from Senju Pleasure Quarter), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)

Woodblock print

Senju Musashi Province (Bushu Senju), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)

Woodblock print

Shower Below the Summit (Sanka hakuu), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)

Woodblock print

snowcapped Mt Fuji

Woodblock print

Soshu Enoshima / Fugaku Sanju Rokkei (36 Views of Mt. Fuji)

Woodblock print

Summit of Fujiyama

1928

Woodblock print

Sunset Mt. Fuji

1995

Woodblock print, ink and color on paper

Taganoura Bay near Ejiri on the Tokaido (Tokaido Ejiri tagono ura ryakuzu), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji (Fugaku sanjuokkei)

Woodblock print

Tama River in Musashi Province (Bushu Tamagawa), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)

Woodblock print

The Outdoor Theater at Mount Fuji

1998

Woodblock print, ink and color on paper

The Sun over Fuji

1990

Woodblock print, ink and color on paper

The Village of Yoshida (Yoshida mura), from the series "Ten Views of Mount Fuji (Fuji jukkei)"

Yoshida mura

1926

Color woodblock print

Thirty-six Views of Fuji: Way to Okino

Woodblock print

Title unknown [Fuji seen from a temple balcony]

1903–1907

Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper

Tokaido Kanaya no Fuji / Fugaku Sanju Rokkei

Woodblock print

Tsujido no Fuji — 辻堂の富士

1929

Woodblock print

Tsujido no Fuji — 辻堂の富士

Woodblock print

View of Fuji at Inuma Ridge in Koshu

Woodblock print

View of Fuji from Izumo

Woodblock print

View of Fujisawa, from the series Fifty-Three Stages of the Tôkaidô

Woodblock print

View of Mount Fuji from Lake Ashi

20th century

Color woodblock print

View of Mt. Fuji

Woodblock print

View of Mt. Fuji from Lake Ashinoko

Woodblock print

White Fuji 8

Woodblock print

White Fuji 8

Woodblock print

Wisteria Maiden (Fuji-Musume)

Woodblock print

Yoshiwara: Mount Fuji on the Left (Yoshiwara, hidari Fuji), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido

c. 1833/34

Color woodblock print; oban

Yoshiwara: Mt. Fuji and Cherry Blossoms

Woodblock print

Yui: Mt. Fuji through the Window

Woodblock print

Artists Who Depicted Mount Fuji (49)

Bertha Lum

1869–1954

Ebina Masao

海老名正夫

Fumio Fujita

藤田不美夫

1933–2020

Fumio Kitaoka

北岡文雄

1918–2007

Gihachiro Okuyama

奥山儀八郎

1907–1981

Hajime Namiki

並木一

1947

Henmi Takashi

逸見享

1895–1944

Hideo Hagiwara

萩原英雄

1913–2007

Hiratsuka Un'ichi

平塚運一

1895–1997

Hiroshi Yoshida

吉田博

1876–1950

Imoto Tekiho

井元荻浦

Inagaki Toshijiro

稲垣稔次郎

1902–1963

Ishikawa Toraji

石川寅治

1875–1964

Ito Takashi

伊東孝

1894–1982

Jokata Kaiseki

Jun'ichiro Sekino

関野準一郎

1914–1988

Kajita Hanko

梶田半古

1870–1917

Katsushika Hokusai

葛飾北斎

1760–1849

Kawase Hasui

川瀬巴水

1883–1957

Kitagawa Utamaro

喜多川歌麿

1753–1806

Kitano Tsunetomi

北野恒富

1880–1947

Kobayakawa Kiyoshi

小早川清

1899–1948

Kobayashi Kiyochika

小林清親

1847–1915

Koho Shoda

庄田耕峰

1871–1946

Koichi Maeda

前田光一

1936

Kunio Kaneko

金子國義

1949

Kusaka Kenji

日下健二

1936

Maeda Masao

前田政雄

1904–1974

Nana Shiomi

塩見奈々

1956

Ogata Gekko

尾形月耕

1859–1920

Okumura Koichi

奥村厚一

1904–1974

Paul Binnie

1967

Paul Jacoulet

ポール・ジャクレー

1896–1960

Sakuichi Fukazawa

深沢索一

1896–1947

Shiro Kasamatsu

笠松紫浪

1898–1991

Sumio Kawakami

川上澄生

1895–1972

Tadashige Nishida

西田忠重

1942

Tadashige Ono

小野忠重

1909–1990

Takahashi Shotei

高橋松亭

1871–1945

Takehisa Yumeji

竹久夢二

1884–1934

Takeji Asano

浅野竹二

1900–1999

Tomikichiro Tokuriki

徳力富吉郎

1902–1999

Torii Kotondo

鳥居言人

1900–1976

Tsuchiya Koitsu

土屋光逸

1870–1949

Utagawa Hiroshige

歌川広重

1797–1858

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

歌川国芳

1798–1861

Yamamura Toyonari

山村豊成

1885–1942

Yoshijiro Urushibara

漆原木虫

1888–1953

Yuhan Ito

伊藤雄半

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Hanga catalogues 173 prints depicting Mount Fuji (富士山), by 49 different artists.

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