by Kamei Tobei
$200–$1,500. Common subjects: $200–$500. Key value factors: Kamei Tobei's prints are modestly priced and accessible to collectors of shin-hanga landscapes.
This [oban](/glossary/oban) woodblock print is titled with a reference to the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco, indicating the work's institutional provenance rather than its subject matter. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, housed in the Legion of Honor building, hold significant Japanese print collections, and Kamei Tobei's work would fit naturally alongside other [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) landscapes in their holdings. The institutional title obscures the print's original name, but the image itself would follow Kamei's established pattern of Kyoto-area views rendered with attention to atmospheric conditions and seasonal character. Museum provenance titles, while frustrating for identification purposes, document the migration of Japanese prints into Western collections, a story that parallels the shin-hanga movement's deliberate cultivation of international markets.
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.
Legion of Honor was created by Kamei Tobei (亀井東平).
Legion of Honor depicts landscapes.
