$400–$3,000. Common subjects: $400–$1,000. Key value factors: Okuyama's prints are relatively affordable. Bold, well-preserved examples are most valued.
"Ame no Shimoda Fuji" (Rain at Shimoda Fuji) presents Mount Fuji viewed through rain from the Shimoda direction — likely from the Izu Peninsula, whose southern tip at Shimoda was one of the first ports opened to American ships under the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854. Rain across the Fuji view is among the most atmospheric of the mountain's presentations: its great form softened by the curtain of falling water, the surrounding landscape dissolved into impressionistic washes of gray and blue. Okuyama's rendering of rain and mountain demonstrates his mastery of atmospheric landscape.
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.
Ame no Shimoda Fuji was created by Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山儀八郎).
Ame no Shimoda Fuji depicts landscapes and mount fuji, set at Mount Fuji.
