Koichi Okada – Mount Fuji from the Coast of Hagoromo

Original woodblock print. The first edition of this design was published circa 1950. The current print was printed in the Reiwa period (2019 – present).

As in all six completed prints of Koichi Okada’s series “Twelve Views of Japan”, Mount Fuji is depicted in full in the background. In the current print, the sea is seen in the foreground, crashing its waves on the coast, leading to a more dynamic print than the other mostly tranquil prints of the series.

Image size (excluding margins): 36.5 * 24.0 cm (14.4 * 9.4 in).

The print is in excellent condition.

The pictures shown here are from the print itself.

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Okada Koichi is known for his series of woodblock prints “Twelve views of Japan”, created around the year 1950. The series might have been intended to consist of twelve different prints, but only six are known. They depict the mount Fuji seen from Hakone, Lake Kawaguchi, Lake Ashinoko, Hagoromo and overlooking Nihondaira. All these have been printed using the original woodblocks by Unsodo, the same publisher that published the first editions.

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