Riverside
- Date:
- 1935
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
$1,500–$10,000. Common prints: $1,500–$3,000. Key value factors: Settai's literary elegance and refined technique have a niche but devoted following among collectors of Japanese aestheticism.
A view along a riverbank provides the setting for this 1935 oban woodblock print, one of Komura Settai's less frequent excursions into pure landscape. The composition balances the horizontal flow of the river against vertical elements, whether trees, buildings, or figures, along its banks. Settai's training in nihonga painting and his study of Edo-period prints both inform his approach to landscape, combining observed topography with a compositional formality rooted in Japanese pictorial tradition. The riverside setting was a rich subject in Japanese art, associated with leisure, commerce, and the liminal boundary between urban civilization and natural wilderness. Settai's interpretation favors stillness and spatial clarity over the bustling activity that earlier artists might have emphasized.
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.
Riverside was created by Komura Settai (小村雪岱) in 1935.
Riverside was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1935).
Riverside depicts landscapes and rivers & lakes.
