Image: Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyūshū
The Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art has highlighted a work by Yasuto Ide, introducing a painting of Mount Fuji seen from Fujinomiya City in Shizuoka Prefecture. According to the museum’s post, the scene shows the mountain on a cloudless evening, with the peaks catching the sun and glowing gold.
The museum’s post is focused on the artwork itself rather than on a broader exhibition programme, but it identifies the subject as part of Ide’s ongoing engagement with Mount Fuji. The artist has been working with the mountain as a motif since 2021, exploring a range of views and conditions through different paintings.
Among those works, the museum notes that this large-scale painting is especially significant in size and presentation. At nearly four metres across, it is described as the only work from this group to have been submitted to the autumn ‘Saikōin-ten’ exhibition.
The image shared by the museum presents Mount Fuji not as a distant emblem but as a specific landscape moment tied to a named viewpoint in Fujinomiya. The composition emphasises the effect of evening light, which transforms the mountain’s surface into a bright, metallic gold.
No wider exhibition schedule or venue details were included in the post beyond the reference to the autumn ‘Saikōin-ten’. The museum’s message instead serves as a work introduction, drawing attention to Ide’s continued study of one of Japan’s most recognisable subjects and to the unusually large scale of this particular canvas.
The post was published by the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art on 1 August 2026, with the museum sharing the work under the hashtag for ‘Yasuto Ide Exhibition’. The artwork remains identified through the museum’s captioning as a view of Mount Fuji from Fujinomiya City, painted in the light of a clear evening.
