Inume Pass in Kai Province (Kôshû Inume-tôge)

Catalog note / 解説

Fuji is viewed from the hillside of Inume Pass on the Köshü Road connecting the city of Köfu, in what is now Yamanashi prefecture, and Edo (present-day Tokyo). On the gentle slope at left, two travelers walk in front of two horses laden with cargo. Ahead of them, two more men ascend the steep hill. Fuji, covered with heavy fog at the base, looms against the pink sky. Its long, red-brown flanks reflect the sunlight, and the mountain’s upper reaches are blue toward the summit, where snow covers the cap. The key-block was printed in blue. (The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, HOKUSAI AND HIROSHIGE – Great Japanese Prints from the James A. Michener Collection, Honolulu Academy of Arts: The As…