Japanese Woodblock Print, 1950s, published by Unsodo

SIZE IN INCHES: koban,7 x 5 inches

COMMENTS: Mount Fuji is the highest volcano and also the highest peak in Japan. What most people do not know about Mount Fuji is that it is also an active volcano. The last eruption of Mount Fuji was around 1707-1708. On the first day of the massive 1707 eruption, 72 houses and 3 Buddhist temples were destroyed 10km from the volcano. The eruption lasted for over 16 days, with ash reaching as far as Tokyo.

TAKEJI ASANO (1900-1999) was born in Kyoto. In 1919 he graduated from the Kyoto City School of Fine Arts and Crafts and then from the Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting in 1923. Among his Early Teachers was the artist and printmaker Tsuchida Bakusen. Asano helped to organize the Kyoto Creative Print Society (Kyoto Sosaku-Hanga Kyoka) in 1929.

In 1930, Asano along with other members of the Creative Print Society contributed several designs to a series of prints titled Creative Prints of Twelve Months in New Kyoto (Sosaku-hanga shin Kyoto junikagetsu), which were published by Uchida. He expanded his skills in print design as well as learning the skills of carving and printing which enabled him to create some self-carved and self-printed series of landscape prints. Many of his best prints were published by Unsodo.

VG, minor flaws as shown