Nostalgic Scenery #1

The first print in Yamamoto's 'Nostalgic Scenery' series, executed as a monochrome stone lithograph in the artist's characteristic muted tonal range. The title suggests a remembered landscape rather than a topographical record, and the print likely employs Yamamoto's typical method of building velvet mid-greys through tusche washes and crayon work on lithographic stone, then pulling editions in carbon-black ink on heavy paper. His landscapes tend toward depopulated views — fields, rooftops, distant hills — composed with the same compressed depth and quiet atmosphere that define his interior pieces. As the inaugural print of the series, it establishes the tonal vocabulary and motif set that subsequent variations refine. While 'Light, Time, Silence' remains his ongoing principal title, the parallel 'Nostalgic Scenery' works extend his interest in memory and dwelling outward to landscape, aligning with the broader Japanese contemporary printmaking concern with mono no aware — the pathos of transient things.