![Title unknown [Landscape with figure standing in grasses] by Kihei Sasajima — Japanese Woodblock print, ink on paper, 1947](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/135843.jpg)
Title unknown [Landscape with figure standing in grasses]
- Date:
- 1947
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink on paper
- Dimensions:
- 44.5 × 55.9 cm
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Sasajima's meditative prints appeal to collectors of both Japanese prints and modern art.
Dated 1947, this ink-on-paper woodblock print places a solitary figure standing amid tall grasses in an open landscape. The human presence is small against the expanse of the natural setting, a compositional choice that emphasizes the scale of the land relative to the individual. The tall grasses, likely the susuki (pampas grass) or other wild grasses that characterize Japanese autumn fields, create a textured foreground through which the figure is partially obscured. The image carries a quality of solitude that pervades Sasajima's early work, when the quiet emptiness of rural landscapes offered both artistic subject matter and emotional refuge in the difficult postwar years. The figure may be a traveler, a farmer, or simply someone pausing to contemplate the surrounding terrain.
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n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Title unknown [Landscape with figure standing in grasses] was created by Kihei Sasajima (笹島喜平) in 1947.
Title unknown [Landscape with figure standing in grasses] depicts landscapes and figures.
Title unknown [Landscape with figure standing in grasses] measures 44.5 × 55.9 cm.
