Shop in Obama, Fukui Prefecture
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.
Obama, a small coastal city in Fukui Prefecture on the Sea of Japan, maintains a remarkably well-preserved core of traditional wooden merchant architecture. Nishijima depicts one of the town's characteristic shops — the heavy sliding lattice of the shopfront, the deep eaves sheltering the entrance, the aged timber darkened by generations of salt air and weather. The shop is rendered with particular attention to the texture of age: the warped boards, the patina of use, the way a building acquires character through the accumulated effects of inhabitation over time.
c. 1833/34
Color woodblock print; oban
c. 1922
Color woodblock print
行商人
c. 1940
Color woodblock print
Shōwa period, 1977
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Shop in Obama, Fukui Prefecture was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
Shop in Obama, Fukui Prefecture depicts market scenes.
