$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Fujita's contemplative prints appeal to collectors of contemporary Japanese printmaking.
Kougen no Asa B — Highlands in the Morning — is the second variation in Fujita's series of highland morning subjects, capturing the particular atmospheric quality of Japan's high plateaus (kougen) at dawn: the cool air, the low-angled light catching mountain grasses, the clarity of altitude before the heat of day builds. Japan's highland plateaus — Nasu, Ura-Bandai, Kirigamine — have a distinctive character that differs from both coastal and lowland morning, and Fujita's abstract treatment conveys this specific atmosphere.
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.
KOUGEN NO ASA B (Highlands in the Morning) was created by Fumio Fujita (藤田不美夫).
KOUGEN NO ASA B (Highlands in the Morning) depicts landscapes, mountains, and abstract.
