Village scene

A village scene in the tradition of Nishijima's ongoing engagement with the architecture and landscape of Japan's rural communities — the small-scale domestic and agricultural buildings of a settled rural community rendered with the same precision and affection he brought to his Kyoto subjects. The village scene in Japanese printmaking carries deep associations with nostalgia for a pre-modern Japan, but Nishijima's approach resists romantic generalization in favor of specific architectural observation.