Women of Ôhara (Ôharame), 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 the women of Ohara (Oharame), the village women who descended from the mountains north of Kyoto to sell firewood and flowers in the city. The Oharame subject has deep roots in Japanese art, appearing in screens, scrolls, and prints for centuries as an emblem of the interdependence between Kyoto and its rural hinterland. Domoto's inclusion of the Oharame in his eight-views series signals their importance to his vision of Kyoto's essential character: the city cannot be understood without acknowledging the rural communities that sustained it. The women's distinctive dress, their erect posture from carrying loads on their heads, and their movement through the landscape create a composition that is simultaneously portrait, genre scene, and landscape view.
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.
Women of Ôhara (Ôharame), from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei) was created by Insho Domoto (堂本印象).
Women of Ôhara (Ôharame), from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei) depicts landscapes, set at Kyoto.