SHIRAKAWAGO-NO-YANAMI (Roof in Shirakawa)
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.
Description
"Shirakawago-no-yanami" presents the rooflines of Shirakawago, the UNESCO World Heritage village in the Shokawa Valley famous for its extraordinary gassho-zukuri farmhouses whose steeply pitched thatched roofs can reach thirty meters in height. Viewed from above, these massive roofs become the dominant element of the landscape — a composition of organic curves and heavy thatch that Nishijima renders with the same precision he brought to the tile rooftiles of Kyoto, but in a dramatically different architectural register. The village rooflines become an abstract study in the relationship between human building and mountain landscape.
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Frequently Asked Questions
SHIRAKAWAGO-NO-YANAMI (Roof in Shirakawa) was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
SHIRAKAWAGO-NO-YANAMI (Roof in Shirakawa) depicts architecture.