$1,000–$8,000. Common prints: $1,000–$2,500. Key value factors: As a major nihonga painter, Domoto Insho's prints are valued both as artworks and as affordable entry points to his oeuvre. Paintings command far higher prices.
This [oban](/glossary/oban) woodblock print depicts Arashiyama, the mountainous western district of Kyoto where the Oi River flows through a forested gorge that has been celebrated in Japanese art and literature for over a millennium. Domoto, a Kyoto native trained in the Nihonga tradition, brings an intimate familiarity with this landscape that sets his rendering apart from the tourist-eye views of visiting artists. The print likely captures the area's layered mountain silhouettes and riverside scenery, with the woodblock medium handling the dense foliage and atmospheric mist that characterize the Arashiyama valley. Domoto's dual practice in Nihonga painting and woodblock printmaking allowed him to move between brushwork and carved line, bringing a painter's sensitivity to color and tone into the more structured discipline of the print medium.
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
early Shôwa period (1926–1989), 1926/35
Silk, plain weave; stenciled and resist dyed (yûzenzome: ita-age, suri yûzenzome, otoshizome and shigokizome)
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.
Arashiyama was created by Insho Domoto (堂本印象).
Arashiyama depicts landscapes, rivers & lakes, and mountains, set at Arashiyama.
