$500–$5,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Kurosaki's bold, colorful prints appeal to collectors of both Japanese and international contemporary art.
"Fukei Yami W-115" translates to "Landscape-Night," placing this woodblock print within Kurosaki's numbered landscape series that reinterprets the natural world through near-total abstraction. The nocturnal setting gives Kurosaki license to reduce the landscape to its most essential elements: darkness punctuated by fragments of form. Where traditional [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) artists used [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradations to render moonlit scenes with romantic softness, Kurosaki strips night down to hard-edged contrasts and impenetrable shadow. The "W-115" designation indicates this is part of an extended body of work, a sustained meditation on how darkness reshapes our understanding of terrain. The carved woodgrain texture becomes topography itself, blurring the line between printing material and depicted subject.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Fukei Yami W-115 (Landscape-Night W-115) was created by Akira Kurosaki (黒崎彰).
Fukei Yami W-115 (Landscape-Night W-115) depicts landscapes, night scenes, and abstract.
