Nissaka: Night-Weeping Stone
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Typical Price
$500–$6,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Sekino's prolific output keeps prices accessible. Portrait prints are most collected.
Description
The "Night-Weeping Stone" (Yonaki ishi) at Nissaka is one of the Tokaido's most famous supernatural landmarks: a stone monument commemorating a woman who died in childbirth on the pass, whose ghost was said to lament at night for the infant she left behind. Sekino's treatment of this ghost-story subject brings the woodblock print's atmospheric capacity for darkness and suggestion to bear on a narrative that has haunted the Tokaido imagination for centuries.
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More Night Scenes Prints
Evening in East Africa
Woodblock print
Evening Shower at Teradomari (Teradomari no yau), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Second Series (Tabi miyage dai nishu)"
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)"
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
Evening Moon at Nakanoshima, Sapporo (Sapporo Nakanoshima no yuzuki), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan, Eastern Japan Edition (Nihon fukei shu higashi Nihon hen)"
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Nissaka: Night-Weeping Stone was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
Nissaka: Night-Weeping Stone depicts night scenes.