Yabake Valley, Oita Prefecture, Taishô period, dated 1918
- Date:
- Taishô period, 1912-1926
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Harvard Art Museums
With only 14 completed designs, all Goyo prints are intrinsically scarce. Non-bijin subjects (landscapes, still life) tend toward the lower end of his market but remain far above typical shin-hanga prices. Christie's estimated his "Mount Ibuki in Snow" at $5,000–$10,000 in early 2026.
A landscape depicting Yabake Valley in Oita Prefecture on Kyushu — one of the dramatic gorge landscapes of southern Japan, famous for its sheer rock walls and the river threading through them — rendered in one of Goyo's less frequently discussed landscape prints from 1918. The valley was a renowned scenic destination, and Goyo's engagement with it through the bokashi-rich techniques of shin-hanga print production creates an atmospheric work quite different from his bijin subjects but equally precise in its observation of light and space.
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.
Yabake Valley, Oita Prefecture, Taishô period, dated 1918 was created by Hashiguchi Goyo (橋口五葉) in Taishô period, 1912-1926.
Yabake Valley, Oita Prefecture, Taishô period, dated 1918 was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (Taishô period, 1912-1926).
Yabake Valley, Oita Prefecture, Taishô period, dated 1918 depicts landscapes.
