Drooping Cherry
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Typical Price
$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
The weeping cherry (shidarezakura) is among the most poetic of Japanese flowering trees — its branches curving down under the weight of blossoms in a gesture that has been read for centuries as the embodiment of mono no aware, the pathos of transience. Kitaoka renders the drooping branches as cascading curves, the blossoms compressed into masses of pale color that register the tree's characteristic form even in the woodblock's simplified language. It is a subject where Japanese aesthetic tradition and modernist formal concerns meet without friction.
Kumoi sakura
1926
Color woodblock print
1935
Color woodblock print
Romon
1935
Color woodblock print
円山公園桜
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Drooping Cherry was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
Drooping Cherry depicts cherry blossoms.
