View the striking mountains, rivers, and cities of Japan in the woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige.
The high viewpoint in this print enables Hiroshige to emphasise the great height of Mount Fuji. Fuji, the sacred mountain, had long been a favourite subject for poets and painters and there was great public interest in Mount Fuji during the mid-1800s, when Hiroshige was working on this series. It is interesting to note that there is no reflection of the mountain in Lake Motosu below.
Impey, Oliver, Hiroshige's Views of Mount Fuji: A Selection of Woodblock Print Views of Mount Fuji, Including Examples from the Series 'The Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji', of 1858-9, by Hiroshige, 1797-1858 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2001), no. 8 on p. 11, illus. p. 21 pl. 8
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