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.
Details
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Artist/maker
Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer)Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826 - 1869) (designer) -
Associated people
Tsutaya Kichizō (active c. 1820 - 1890) (publisher) -
Object type
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No. of items
1
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EAX.4388
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Catalogue text
The high viewpoint enables the artist to emphasise the height of the mountain, which he clearly found important (see. No. 20) [EAX.4270]. Notice the total lack of reflection of the mountain in Lake Motosu. Motosu is one of the famous Fuji Five Lakes, a celebrated tourist attraction.
In: 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)
Further reading
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
Pollard, Clare, Mitsuko Ito Watanabe, Landscape, Cityscape: Hiroshige Woodblock Prints in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2014), no. 51, illus. p. 153
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