Tateyama Betsuzan

Date:: 1926
Medium:: Woodblock print
Format:: Oban
Publisher:: Yoshida Studio
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Typical Price

This 1920s print from the heart of Yoshida's jizuri period represents his mature shin-hanga technique. Standard jizuri prints of Japanese landscapes cluster around $2,149 (1stDibs dealer benchmark). The jizuri seal — indicating Yoshida personally supervised printing — is the single most important value driver, typically doubling the price over non-jizuri lifetime impressions.

Jizuri (artist-supervised) seal: $1,500–$4,000
Studio edition (no jizuri): $800–$2,000
Posthumous/family workshop reprint: $300–$800

Description

Tateyama Betsuzan refers to a secondary peak in the Tateyama mountain range of the Northern Japan Alps, part of a massif that includes some of the highest and most dramatic terrain in the country. Yoshida's 1926 print brings his oil-painting understanding of mountain form to this imposing subject — the geological structure of the peak visible through the accumulated snow, the sky a dense blue that intensifies with altitude. The Tateyama range was a pilgrimage destination as well as an alpine subject, and Yoshida's treatment honors both dimensions of the mountain's significance.