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Published 1892, 100 Fuji, Hawk and Pine: Yoshite belongs to Other Prints. This work sits outside the catalog’s principal named series but remains characteristic of Gekkō’s wide subject range. His independent designs moved easily among history, legend, contemporary life, landscape, and nature.

Mount Fuji was simultaneously a sacred mountain, a national emblem, and a benchmark against which later artists measured the legacy of Hokusai and Hiroshige. The catalog identifies birds, landscape, Mount Fuji, and tree among the principal motifs. Gekkō uses their relationship to clarify action, season, setting, and narrative emphasis rather than treating them as interchangeable decoration.

Gekkō’s print style is noted for painterly contours, soft color transitions, and reserved paper, effects achieved through the collaborative disciplines of block carving and hand printing.

Additional information

Editions

First Edition, Second Edition

Publisher

Takegawa Risaburo

Size

Oban

Subjects

birds, landscape, mt fuji, tree

Year Published

1892

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