Fuyu no Inabanuma (Winter at Inabanuma)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- British Museum
$500–$5,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
Inabanuma is a lake in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo, and in winter its reed beds and still water take on a particular quality of cold stillness. Kitaoka renders the winter lake with the compressed, horizontal emphasis that makes his landscape prints so distinctive: the water as a dark, reflective plane, the reed beds as vertical strokes at the margins, the whole scene reduced to the essential geometry of a cold, quiet day on a flat, reedy lake. The title's specificity anchors the atmospheric impression in an actual place.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Fuyu no Inabanuma (Winter at Inabanuma) was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
Fuyu no Inabanuma (Winter at Inabanuma) depicts snow scenes and winter.
