$400–$3,000. Common subjects: $400–$1,000. Key value factors: Okuyama's prints are relatively affordable. Bold, well-preserved examples are most valued.
"Agricultural Scene" depicts the seasonal labor of the Japanese countryside — planting, weeding, harvesting, or some other stage in the cycle of cultivation — rendered through Okuyama's direct, observational sosaku-hanga approach. Where his landscape prints often celebrated the natural world's beauty, his genre scenes of agricultural work honored the human labor that shaped the Japanese countryside. The sosaku-hanga principle of personal artistic vision applied here to subject matter far from the spectacular: the dignity of ordinary seasonal labor.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Agricultural scene was created by Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山儀八郎).
Agricultural scene depicts figures, daily life, and village scenes.
