Mt. Fuji from Narusawa
Artist
Kawase Hasui
(Japanese, 1883 - 1957)
Publisher
Shozaburo Watanabe
(Japanese, 1885 - 1962)
CultureJapanese
Date1936
MediumColor woodblock print on laid paper
DimensionsOverall, Image: 9 7/16 x 14 1/4 in. (24 x 36.2 cm)
Overall: 10 7/16 x 15 3/8 in. (26.5 x 39.1 cm)
Overall: 10 7/16 x 15 3/8 in. (26.5 x 39.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Momotaro Yanagida, Mayor of Moji, Japan, sister city of Norfolk
Object number61.72.8
On View
Not on viewLabel TextKawase Hasui Japanese, 1883–1957 Mt. Fuji from Narusawa, 1936 Color woodblock print on laid paper Japan’s tallest peak, Mt. Fuji, looms above a farmhouse in the village of Narusawa, about 70 miles west of Tokyo. The great woodblock printmakers of the 19th century admired this active volcano’s almost perfectly symmetrical conical shape. Kawase Hasui’s print updated their artistic tradition, recognizing the sacred mountain’s enduring appeal to foreign tourists and its increasing domestic popularity during the 1930s, a period of intense patriotism and militarization in Japan. The printers of this image sometimes varied the colors of the mountainside to suggest different times of day. Gift of Momotarō Yanagida, Mayor of Moji, Japan, sister city of Norfolk 61.72.8 Catalogue raisonnéHote: cat. no. 395 Narazaki: cat. no. 384Exhibition History"Gifts from Japan: Landscape Woodblocks in the Shin-Hanga Style," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, March 24 - July 26, 2015.
