Akaurawan no Yuushou (Evening Glow at Akaurawan)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$400–$3,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Okuyama's prints are relatively affordable. Bold, well-preserved examples are most valued.
"Evening Glow at Akaurawan" (Akaurawan no Yuushou) presents the fleeting spectacle of sunset light over Akaurawan — a bay or inlet whose name suggests the reddened (aka) waters of evening. The phenomenon of reflected sunset light on still water — the sky's colors doubled in the bay's surface — was one of the canonical subjects of Japanese landscape art, and Okuyama's sosaku-hanga approach rendered it through his personal observation rather than convention. The warm reds and oranges of evening glow against the cooling blues of water and sky create the compositional tension he sought.
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.
Akaurawan no Yuushou (Evening Glow at Akaurawan) was created by Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山儀八郎).
Akaurawan no Yuushou (Evening Glow at Akaurawan) depicts night scenes.
