Fuji no Yukei by Utagawa Kuniyoshi Utagawa Kuniyoshi his application of colour restrained

his application of colour restrained to the point of austerity

and rendered in the bold chromolithographic palette that defined Jones's design philosophy

mixing the warmth of traditional cartography with a contemporary flatness that keeps the work firmly in the present

Where earlier works in the series breathed openly

There is more tension in Nr 3 than in its predecessors

Fuji no Yukei by Utagawa Kuniyoshi Utagawa Kuniyoshi his application of colour restrainedFuji no Yukei Evening View of Fuji places Kuniyoshi's compositional energy in an unusually contemplative mode. The mountain rises into a sky that moves through gradations of dusk colour, while the foreground establishes the traveller's viewpoint with the precise visual economy characteristic of ukiyo e landscape. Where Kuniyoshi's warrior prints use dynamic diagonals to generate tension, this work builds its effect through stillness: the great cone