Yūfuku Hot Spring in Iwami
by Oda Kazuma
- Date:
- 1925
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Dimensions:
- 39.2 × 26.5 cm
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
by Oda Kazuma
Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
The Yūfuku hot spring in Iwami Province (modern Shimane Prefecture) was among the many onsen that Kazuma visited and documented in his travel prints. What distinguishes this 1925 woodblock print is its subject: a nude figure at the spring, the bathing form a natural extension of the onsen tradition. Kazuma handles the nude with the gentle, unforced naturalness of someone who has absorbed both the Japanese tradition of bathing as communal and healthful and the Western painterly tradition that saw the nude as a primary subject for the exploration of light on form.
Mutsu Tsuta onsen
1919
Color woodblock print; oban
1943
Color woodblock print
Autumn 1920
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
1924
Color woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Yūfuku Hot Spring in Iwami was created by Oda Kazuma (織田一磨) in 1925.
Yūfuku Hot Spring in Iwami depicts nude.
Yūfuku Hot Spring in Iwami measures 39.2 × 26.5 cm.
