45.Kajikazawa in Kai Province

The painting depicts a man standing on the edge of a rocky beach gouged by rough waves, pulling a net, and a boy watching over a basket of fish at his side.

At first glance, it seems that the raging waves of the sea are striking on the shore. But Kai Province, the current place of Yamanashi Prefecture, is inland. 

Fuji River in the picture, the two rivers (Kamanashi River and Fuefuki River) join together shortly before this point, and a large quantity of water current stream.

The fishermen standing on the rock is absolutely still, whereas water beats against rocks and bubbles express energy. It’s really contrastive opposite ukiyo-e print.

Both the ridgeline of Mt. Fuji, and the rock and fishing line, create triangles and become a geometric pattern.

It receives a high reputation abroad, but originally the Japanese woodblock printing was a picture of only Prussian Blue, and then the colors were added.

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Lake Suwa in Shinano Province from "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji"

44.Lake Suwa in Shinano Province  44. Lake Suwa in Shinano Province In the first edition, it was a woodblock printing of a single indigo color. But every time running into several editions, green and light scarlet was added. Hereby the picture became an emotional landscape of the evening. There is a rocky place where the shrine and two Japanese pine stands in front of the image, and the outlines of Lake Suwa are drawn in parallel with it. It is a ukiyo-e artwork skillfully used...

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The back of Fuji from the Minobu River from "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji"

46.The back of Fuji from the Minobu   46. The back of Fuji from the Minobu River The road that the travelers and horses are walking run down to the Kuonji temple, the head temple of Nichiren sect. Some of them are likely to be on their way to the temple. They are surrounded by rugged rocky mountains, and see the overlapping waves of the river on the left-side. The droplets are drawn with the white small points and give a refreshing feeling for the screen of the ukiyo-e.&nb...

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