Grove
by Fumio Fujita
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
Grove — hayashi or kobayashi — is one of Fujita's most characteristic subject types: a stand of trees at the scale between single specimens and full forest, where the individual trunks remain legible as forms within a collective mass. The grove's specific scale allows Fujita to balance individual vertical forms against the pattern they create together, the negative spaces between trunks as compositionally important as the trunks themselves. This subject recurs across his career in multiple variations and media.
More Prints by Fumio Fujita
More Landscapes Prints
Lake Kugushi in Wakasa Province (Wakasa Kugushiko), from the series Souvenirs of Travel I (Tabi miyage dai isshu)"
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Autumn Maple Leaves at Takao, from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei)
Woodblock print
The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province (Sanuki Kaiganji no hama), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fukei shu II Kansai hen)"
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Tea Kettle, section of a sheet from the series "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces" (Kohon meihitsu ishizuri kagami)
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Grove was created by Fumio Fujita (藤田不美夫).
Grove depicts landscapes, trees, and abstract.