$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Uchima's luminous landscape prints appeal to collectors of both Japanese prints and modern American art.
Frosty Morn (1962) is a woodblock print executed in ink and color on paper with embossing — a technique in which uninked areas of the block are pressed into dampened paper to create raised or recessed textures visible only in raking light. The embossing adds a tactile dimension to the image, suggesting the brittle surface quality of frost: the way morning ice crystals catch and scatter light across grass and branches before the sun dissolves them. Uchima's use of this technique connects his work to the [karazuri](/glossary/karazuri) (blind printing) tradition of [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e), where embossing was used to render snow, white fabric, and other pale textures with physical rather than chromatic presence.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frosty Morn was created by Ansei Uchima (内間安瑆) in 1962.
Frosty Morn uses Embossing, on woodblock print, ink and color on paper with embossing.
Frosty Morn depicts snow scenes, winter, and abstract.
Frosty Morn measures 60.3 × 44.6 cm.
