Koichi Okada – Mount Fuji from Ashinoko

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

Mount Fuji from Ashinoko depicts Mount Fuji with Lake Ashi in the foreground. Koichi Okada chose to show the lake from up close, unlike Hiroshige and Hokusai in their designs from more than a century before, with Mount Fuji towering over it in the background.

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.

See an overview of Koichi Okada's woodblock prints