名勝八景 富士暮雪
Evening Snow on Mount Fuji
White streaks of snow run down Mount Fuji from its summit. Near the horizon, the indigo sky takes on a tinge of orange.
About this print
Against a deep indigo sky, snow-capped Mount Fuji rises in the center. A long band of white cloud stretches across its middle slopes, and below it, houses with brown roofs cluster among the trees. Beside one of the houses on the left is a small shape that looks like a person.
The "hakkei" (eight views) in the original title, Meisho Hakkei, follows the naming pattern of the Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang, a classic theme of Chinese landscape painting showing eight scenes in Hunan Province. "Bosetsu" means evening snow. One of the eight, "River and Sky in Evening Snow," shows snow falling on a river at dusk. In Japan, too, the Eight Views of Omi, around Lake Biwa, include "Evening Snow on Mount Hira."
Follow Fuji's right-hand slope all the way to the edge of the picture, and a second, smaller peak appears low on the horizon. It is far paler than the Fuji in the center, as if about to melt into the orange sky.
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- Source title
- 『名勝八景.富士暮雪』（[天保頃]）
- Held by
- National Diet Library, Japan
- Why it's free to use
- Copyright expired (public domain)
- Original item
- View in the NDL Digital Collections
- Made
- 150+ years ago (Edo period)
- Added to site
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