$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.
"Rokka" — a tea shop identified by this poetic name (Six Flowers, or Snowflake) — is rendered in Nishijima's characteristic mode of traditional commercial architecture appreciation. The tea shop's facade, with whatever particular combination of latticed woodwork, signage, and entrance planting it presents, is treated with the same seriousness Nishijima brings to grander architectural subjects: the small commercial establishment as a site of aesthetic coherence, its modest scale and functional design achieving a beauty inseparable from its purpose.
Woodblock print
c. 1833/34
Color woodblock print; oban
c. 1922
Color woodblock print
行商人
c. 1940
Color woodblock print
ROKKA (tea shop) was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
ROKKA (tea shop) depicts market scenes and food & drink.
