SANSUI (landscape)
by Ido Masao
Typical Price
$1,000–$6,000. Common subjects: $1,000–$2,000. Key value factors: Ido Masao's prints have maintained steady value since his death in 2016. Traditional architecture subjects are most popular.
by Ido Masao
$1,000–$6,000. Common subjects: $1,000–$2,000. Key value factors: Ido Masao's prints have maintained steady value since his death in 2016. Traditional architecture subjects are most popular.
Sansui, the Japanese word for landscape, literally translates as mountains and water, naming the two elements that East Asian aesthetic tradition considers essential to any complete landscape composition. Ido Masao's [oban](/glossary/oban) woodblock print takes this elemental concept as its title and presumably as its compositional principle, presenting a scene built from the interplay of elevated terrain and flowing or still water. The sansui tradition has its roots in Chinese ink painting but was thoroughly naturalized in Japan, where the mountainous, water-rich geography provides endless material for the genre. Ido renders this archetypal landscape in woodblock, where mountains can be built from stacked color blocks and water suggested through smooth, unbroken ink surfaces that contrast with the textured irregularity of rock and forest.
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.
SANSUI (landscape) was created by Ido Masao (井堂雅夫).
SANSUI (landscape) depicts landscapes.
