$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.
"Yuugumo" — cloud in the evening, a variant rendering of the evening cloud subject — returns to one of Nishijima's characteristic atmospheric themes: the specific drama of cloud formations in the evening sky. This second evening cloud print may depict a different cloud type, a different season's particular evening atmosphere, or a different architectural setting below the dramatic sky. His multiple treatments of similar atmospheric subjects reflect the traditional Japanese aesthetic interest in subtle variation within repeated theme.
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
YUUGUMO (cloud in the evening) was created by Katsuyuki Nishijima (西島勝之).
YUUGUMO (cloud in the evening) depicts night scenes.
