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 of Yabakei gorge in Oita Prefecture, produced in 1918 during what appears to have been a trip to Kyushu that inspired several of Goyo's landscape prints. The gorge — carved by the Yamakuni River through Permian limestone — offered dramatically vertical scenery that suited Goyo's interest in the tension between still water and towering rock. The mica applied to the paper surface gives the water an additional reflective quality that no purely optical description of the gorge could achieve.
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.
Yabakei was created by Hashiguchi Goyo (橋口五葉) in 1918.
Yabakei was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1918).
Yabakei depicts landscapes, rivers & lakes, and mountains.
Yabakei measures 37 × 50 cm (Oban format).
