Spring of a Village among the Hills
by Fumio Fujita
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
by Fumio Fujita
$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Fujita's contemplative prints appeal to collectors of contemporary Japanese printmaking.
Spring of a Village among the Hills combines two of Fujita's recurring subjects — the rural village and the forested hillscape — within the hopeful atmosphere of spring. Villages nested in Japan's hilly interior typically experience spring as a gradual process of warming, with cherry trees and plum blooming before the fields are worked and the forest canopy fully emerges. Fujita's abstract woodblock rendering of this combination likely balances the architectural geometric of village structures against the organic rhythms of spring vegetation.
Spring of a Village among the Hills was created by Fumio Fujita (藤田不美夫).
Spring of a Village among the Hills depicts spring and village scenes.
