$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Tajima's powerful abstract prints have appeal among both Japanese print and modern art collectors.
"Small Farm-House" brings Tajima's formally trained eye to a rural subject — the compact, weathered forms of a Japanese farmhouse — and distills its essential architecture into abstract woodblock language. Thatched or tiled rooflines, dark timber framing, and the surrounding land are compressed into geometric and textural relationships that evoke the physical reality of such structures without representing them literally. The work connects to his broader interest in the surfaces and forms of vernacular Japanese architecture.
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.
Small Farm-House was created by Hiroyuki Tajima (田島博之).
Small Farm-House depicts landscapes, architecture, and village scenes.
