Flat Blue, Hard Edge
Fuji across still water, cut into flat unmodulated colour behind a firm black keyblock line, with one hard band of Prussian blue weighting the top of the sky.
Ink and Empty Paper
The same mountain in monochrome sumi ink, its snowline left as untouched paper and its ridges built from splintered axe-cut strokes.
The Scholar’s Loose Hand
A loose literati reading of the mountain: springy calligraphic outline, thin transparent washes, and a third of the sheet left bare.
The Softened Mountain
The mountain softened by hand-rubbed gradation, its base dissolving into low haze above a graded stretch of water.
Wind Through the Ridges
The same view charged with wind – wavering contours, shoreline trees bent hard to one side, and choppy water beneath scoured dry-brush cloud.