Fuji in winter above a channel threading the snow

Mount Fuji stands snow-covered across the sheet above Lake Kawaguchi, under a sky graded from pale peach at the horizon to soft blue. Long blue-grey ridges run out on either side of the peak. The foreground is a winter shore of pale snow and dark earth, with bare scrub and a channel of blue water threading through it, and a small boat pulled up at the right. Yoshida gives the snow on the mountain a faint warm tint from the low sun.

Hiroshi Yoshida (1876–1950) came to woodblock printing from Western-style oil and watercolour painting, and the meeting of the two defines his work. He travelled widely before turning to prints — the Alps, the Rockies, India, Egypt and China all enter his subjects — and in 1925 set up his own studio, supervising the carving and printing himself instead of working through a publisher. That control let him print one set of blocks in several colour states, so the same view could be given morning, evening or mist. His prints are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago.

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