Daimonji-yama, from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei)
by Insho Domoto
by Insho Domoto
$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.
From the Eight Views of Kyoto album, this [oban](/glossary/oban) woodblock print depicts Daimonji-yama, the mountain on Kyoto's eastern edge whose slopes bear the giant kanji character "dai" (great) burned into them each August during the Gozan no Okuribi festival. The mountain is visible from much of the city and serves as a geographic and spiritual landmark. Domoto's composition likely presents the mountain from a vantage point within Kyoto that captures its looming presence over the urban landscape. Outside the dramatic context of the fire festival, Daimonji-yama is a green, forested peak whose cleared character-path is visible as a lighter scar on the hillside. As a Kyoto resident, Domoto would have seen this mountain daily, and his rendering carries the familiarity of long observation rather than the excitement of first encounter.
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)
Woodblock print
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.
Daimonji-yama, from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei) was created by Insho Domoto (堂本印象).
Daimonji-yama, from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei) depicts landscapes, set at Kyoto.