Outskirt of a Village (Mura hazure)
- Date:
- 1969
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; edition 38/50
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
"Outskirt of a Village" (Mura hazure) from 1969 — one of Kitaoka's favorite subjects — captures the transitional zone between built settlement and open countryside. The village outskirts are a liminal landscape: the last houses giving way to fields and paths, the compact geometry of village buildings dissolving into the more open, irregular forms of agricultural land. Edition 38/50 indicates a small, carefully controlled print run. Kitaoka renders this threshold zone with the formal attention it deserves as a distinctively Japanese landscape type.
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Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Outskirt of a Village (Mura hazure) was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄) in 1969.
Outskirt of a Village (Mura hazure) depicts village scenes.
