$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
"Morning of tableland B" — a second variant in a series of highland morning compositions — captures the plateau at the moment when dawn light spreads across open, elevated terrain. The tableland offers a distinctive landscape experience: the horizon wide and low, the sky enormous, the ground a level expanse without the vertical drama of mountain or valley. Kitaoka renders morning's arrival on such terrain as a horizontal drama of light and color, the flatness of the tableland becoming an invitation to pure atmospheric painting in woodblock form.
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.
KOUGENNOASA B (morning of tableland B) was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
KOUGENNOASA B (morning of tableland B) depicts landscapes, mountains, and abstract.
