Hara, Mount Fuji in the Morning

The artwork

Mount Fuji is so big that its white peak breaks out of the frame, and beneath it three travellers walk, tiny, along the rice fields. You receive it printed on handmade Amalfi paper, in a handmade frame.

• The white of the mountain, the pink of the morning sky and the greys of the rice fields.
• A solemn, luminous landscape, perfect in an entrance hall or a study.
• A gift for anyone who loves mountains, Mount Fuji and Japan.

It belongs to the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō, the series that made Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), the best loved landscape artist of Japan, famous, published between 1833 and 1834 by the publisher Hōeidō. The Tōkaidō was the great road that linked Edo, today's Tokyo, with Kyoto, with fifty-three post stations where travellers stopped. Hara was a village at the foot of Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan, 3,776 metres, revered as a sacred mountain.

From Hara Fuji filled the sky, and Hiroshige says so with a simple, daring idea: the mountain is too big to fit in the picture, and its summit breaks through the top edge. Below pass two women with a bearer carrying the luggage, tiny in front of the mountain, and two cranes settle in the rice field. It is one of the finest ways a painter ever found to make you feel the grandeur of a landscape. Our reproduction comes from the impression in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

In an entrance hall or a study it brings the grandeur of the most famous mountain in Japan. A gift for anyone who loves travelling.

Unique quality material

Print on handmade Amalfi paper
Sheet size: 29 x 42 cm (11.4 x 16.5 in)
With frame: 31 x 44 cm (12.2 x 17.3 in)
Material: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges
Frame: dark brown with gold fillet, handmade, with glass