$1,000–$6,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Nishijima's nostalgic Japanese village scenes appeal to collectors worldwide. Limited editions maintain value well.
"Yobanashi" — stories told at night, or nighttime conversation — suggests an interior scene glimpsed from outside, or the quality of a night when lights in houses invite the imagination to supply the conversations happening within. Nishijima's night scenes rarely depict explicit human activity, but the presence of interior light transforms his architectural subjects into containers of implied life: the darkness outside makes the warmth within legible, the blank facades of daytime streetscapes becoming animated by the specific illumination of inhabited interiors.
Woodblock print
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
YOBANASHI (Story at night) was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
YOBANASHI (Story at night) depicts night scenes.
