$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.
"Hukuryoku" presents one of Kyoto's characteristic streets — machiya townhouses lining both sides, their latticed facades at once open and private, the lane itself proportioned to human movement rather than vehicular traffic. Nishijima's Kyoto streets are distinguished by his attention to the specific vocabulary of machiya architecture: the different lattice patterns of weavers' and merchants' houses, the garden walls glimpsed between buildings, the seasonal plantings in entrance approaches. This street carries all of those specificities, rendered in the careful, affectionate precision that defines his best Kyoto work.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
HUKURYOKU (a Kyoto street) was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
HUKURYOKU (a Kyoto street) depicts urban scenes, set at Kyoto.
