$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.
"Kuta no Yuki" — snow at Kuta, a village area — is a winter snowscape characteristic of Nishijima's engagement with rural communities in the mountainous regions of the Kinki and Chubu areas. The snowfall simplifies the complex texture of traditional agricultural and residential architecture into bold forms and clean contrasts: the dark timber against white snow, the mass of the heavy roof reduced to pure geometric weight, the landscape beyond lost in the white of continuing snowfall. His rural winter scenes carry a particular stillness absent from his urban subjects.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Kuta no Yuki was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
Kuta no Yuki depicts snow scenes, architecture, and winter.
