KANTEN, landscape in Okinawa
Typical Price
$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.
$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.
"Kanten" — a word for the traditional agar-agar dried in winter cold — here serves as a title for a landscape in Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture. Nishijima's usual vocabulary of grey rooftops and snow-dusted streets gives way to Okinawa's distinctive tropical-influenced architecture: red roof tiles, coral stone walls, subtropical foliage, a palette warmer and more saturated than his typical Kyoto or Shiga subjects. The displacement of setting within a consistent printmaking sensibility makes this a fascinating outlier in Nishijima's work, demonstrating the range of Japanese landscape tradition he was prepared to engage.
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.
KANTEN, landscape in Okinawa was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
KANTEN, landscape in Okinawa depicts landscapes.
