$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.
Kurashiki's famous canal district preserves the finest concentration of Edo-period kura merchant-house architecture in western Japan, its whitewashed walls and black-tiled rooflines reflected in the willow-lined waterway that runs through the historic quarter. Nishijima renders a lane in this celebrated district with his characteristic precision for kura architecture — the layered walls, the distinctive roof treatment, the harmonious relationship between built form and the canal it faces. The Kurashiki canal district offered Nishijima one of his most architecturally coherent subjects outside his native Kyoto region.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
KURASHIKI-NO-ROJI (Street in Kurashiki) was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
KURASHIKI-NO-ROJI (Street in Kurashiki) depicts urban scenes.
