YUHI (the evening sun)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- wbp
Description
YUHI — the evening sun — rendered as a semi-abstract composition in Kimura's contemporary woodblock style. The setting sun was one of the great subjects of the Japanese landscape tradition, the specific quality of evening light — the reddening of the sky, the elongation of shadows, the dramatic color transformation of familiar forms — providing printmakers with a visual experience that tested the limits of the woodblock medium's color range. Kimura's abstract approach reduces the evening sun to its essential visual drama.
More Prints by Kimura Yoshiharu
More Night Scenes Prints
Evening in East Africa
Woodblock print
Evening Shower at Teradomari (Teradomari no yau), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Second Series (Tabi miyage dai nishu)"
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)
Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)"
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
Evening Moon at Nakanoshima, Sapporo (Sapporo Nakanoshima no yuzuki), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan, Eastern Japan Edition (Nihon fukei shu higashi Nihon hen)"
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Frequently Asked Questions
YUHI (the evening sun) was created by Kimura Yoshiharu (木村吉晴).
YUHI (the evening sun) depicts night scenes.