$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.
"Fuji in Snow" presents Japan's most iconic mountain in its winter aspect — the white cone of Fuji under a fresh covering of snow, a vision so familiar it has become almost abstract, the mountain reduced to its essential geometry of cone and white against sky. Yet Okuyama's sosaku-hanga treatment gives this most worn of Japanese subjects freshness through personal observation: the particular quality of light on snow at a particular time of day, the surrounding landscape's own winter character, the atmospheric conditions of a specific winter sky.
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.
Fuji in snow was created by Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山儀八郎).
Fuji in snow depicts landscapes, snow scenes, and mount fuji, set at Mount Fuji.
