$2,000–$15,000+. Common subjects: $2,000–$5,000. Key value factors: As the founder of sosaku-hanga, Yamamoto's prints carry great historical significance. His earliest works are the most valued.
Made around 1913 during Yamamoto's sojourn in France, this woodblock print records the countryside of Brittany with a visual language shaped by both Japanese craft and French post-Impressionism. The Breton landscape, with its windswept fields, stone walls, and low horizons, offered Yamamoto subject matter strikingly different from the Japanese scenery that dominated the print world he had left behind. His handling of the terrain favors broad tonal areas over fine detail, compressing the depth of the landscape into the flat surface of the print. The work documents a formative period when Yamamoto was absorbing European artistic ideas that would fuel the [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) movement upon his return to Japan.
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.
Breton Landscape was created by Kanae Yamamoto (山本鼎) in c. 1913.
Breton Landscape depicts landscapes.
