$200–$1,500. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Shoda Koho's elegant nature prints are beautifully produced and accessible to beginning collectors.
In this oban woodblock print, a lakeside inn sits beneath a full moon whose light spills across the water in a broad, luminous column. Shoda positions the viewer at a distance from the inn, so that its lantern-lit windows glow like warm embers against the cool blue-black of the surrounding night. The composition splits between the solidity of the inn's architecture and the fluid surface of the lake, where moonlight fractures into rippling bands of silver. Shoda was drawn repeatedly to nocturnal scenes, and this print shows his ability to render darkness not as absence but as a rich, layered presence. The contrast between the inn's domestic warmth and the vast, indifferent beauty of the moonlit lake gives the image a quality of quiet contemplation.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
A Lakeside Inn Under Moonlight was created by Koho Shoda (庄田耕峰).
A Lakeside Inn Under Moonlight depicts landscapes, moonlight, and night scenes.
