KAWAGOE-NO-SYOYA (store at Kawagoe)
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.
"Kawagoe-no-syoya" depicts a traditional merchant store in Kawagoe, the "Little Edo" city in Saitama Prefecture that preserved an exceptional concentration of Edo-period kura (fireproof warehouse) architecture. Nishijima renders the store's characteristic kura-style facade — the heavy plastered walls and black latticed windows that made these structures fireproof — with his usual architectural precision and obvious appreciation for the quality of a building type that embodied commercial success combined with aesthetic seriousness. Kawagoe's kura streetscape was a natural subject for an artist devoted to traditional Japanese architectural heritage.
Woodblock print
c. 1833/34
Color woodblock print; oban
c. 1922
Color woodblock print
行商人
c. 1940
Color woodblock print
KAWAGOE-NO-SYOYA (store at Kawagoe) was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
KAWAGOE-NO-SYOYA (store at Kawagoe) depicts market scenes.
