Night Lights (Yoru no kanjo)
by Ansei Uchima
- Date:
- 1957
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
by Ansei Uchima
$500–$4,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Uchima's luminous landscape prints appeal to collectors of both Japanese prints and modern American art.
Night Lights (Yoru no kanjo) is a 1957 color woodblock print whose Japanese subtitle translates as "emotions of the night" or "nighttime feelings" — a more evocative reading than the English title suggests. Where "Night Lights" implies a visual subject (illumination against darkness), "Yoru no kanjo" points toward an interior, emotional experience of nighttime. Uchima bridges these two readings through abstract forms that function simultaneously as observed light phenomena (streetlamps, windows, reflections on wet pavement) and as emotional states (warmth against cold, presence against absence, wakefulness against the surrounding sleep of the city).
Woodblock print
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
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1947
Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Night Lights (Yoru no kanjo) was created by Ansei Uchima (内間安瑆) in 1957.
Night Lights (Yoru no kanjo) depicts night scenes.
