$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.
"Yugumo" — evening clouds — depicts the cloud formations that gather in the late afternoon and early evening, backlit by the setting sun into dramatic shapes of purple and orange. Nishijima renders these evening clouds in relation to the architectural silhouettes of traditional buildings below: the dynamic sky contrasted against the static rooflines, the transient atmospheric event set against the enduring built forms. His evening cloud subjects develop the tension between permanence and change that runs through all his atmospheric studies.
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
YUGUMO (Evening Clouds) was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
YUGUMO (Evening Clouds) depicts night scenes.
