Mt. Fuji and Cherry Blossom 富士と桜

KOISHI Kiyoshi 小石清

Photographs of Mount Fuji, from the Meiji period to today, capture its fundamentally unchanging form in scenes changing with the seasons. In the work of OKADA Koyo, who pursued the many aspects of Fuji throughout his life, KOISHI Kiyoshi, who viewed contrasts between the mountain in black and the transparently glimmering cherry blossoms, using ultraviolet photography, and KUROKAWA Suizan, whose photography calls to mind sansui-ga, Chinese-style landscape painting, we see the mythological dynamism and tranquil drama of representations of Fuji.

Collection of: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Title: Mt. Fuji and Cherry Blossom
Original title: 富士と桜
Artist Name: KOISHI Kiyoshi
Year: 1934
Material / Technique: Gelatin silver print on developing-out paper
Dimensions: 294x364mm
Accession number: 10103948
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