$1,000–$6,000. Common subjects: $1,000–$2,000. Key value factors: Nishijima's nostalgic Japanese village scenes appeal to collectors worldwide. Limited editions maintain value well.
The second month of the traditional calendar — corresponding roughly to late January into February — was the deepest of winter, when the Japanese landscape settled into its most austere palette of bare branches, grey skies, and compressed cold. Nishijima renders this seasonal moment in a scene of traditional architecture that embodies the stripped-down beauty of the winter month: the reduced colors, the clean lines of rooftiles under heavy sky, the sense of a world in suspension between one season and the next.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
February was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
February depicts urban scenes, architecture, and winter.
