SHIROIKI AKEBONO (White tree dawn)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kitaoka's refined style has a modest but loyal collector base.
"White tree dawn" (SHIROIKI AKEBONO) brings together Kitaoka's two great landscape subjects: the white-barked tree and the moment of dawn. The title compounds two Japanese words that each carry independent resonance — shiroiki (white-barked) and akebono (dawn) — to create a compound subject whose visual logic is the white of the tree's bark against the pale, pre-light sky of earliest morning. The composition would render these as a study in closely related values: tree-white and sky-white differentiated only by texture and slightly different temperature of light.
Woodblock print
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
SHIROIKI AKEBONO (White tree dawn) was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
SHIROIKI AKEBONO (White tree dawn) depicts night scenes and trees.
