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Rainy Long Journey by Kazz Morishita — Japanese Archival Pigment Print, 2015

Rainy Long Journey

by Kazz Morishita

Date:
2015
Medium:
Archival Pigment Print
Image courtesy of
Artsy

Description

This image is not a Japanese print — it's a photograph (or digital composite) of a wet, empty rural road receding toward the horizon under a dark, clouded sky with a large crescent moon, flanked by plowed/planted fields and a utility pole. There's no woodblock printmaking technique, ukiyo-e style, or Japanese subject matter visible at all; it reads as a modern photographic landscape image, likely American Midwest in character (paved road with center line, row-cropped fields).

Given the title "Rainy Long Journey," artist "Kazz Morishita," and medium "Archival Pigment Print," this is almost certainly a contemporary fine-art photograph (archival pigment prints are inkjet photographic prints, not woodblock prints) that's been mismatched into a Japanese-woodblock-print catalog record. I don't want to write a description implying this is a ukiyo-e/hanga piece when it isn't — that would misrepresent the object.

Flagging this rather than writing the description — want me to check whether this record belongs in a different table/category, or is this a one-off bad file?

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Rainy Long Journey was created by Kazz Morishita (森下和彦) in 2015.

Rainy Long Journey depicts rain and travel scenes.