Album cover
- Date:
- Not set
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$200–$2,000. Common Kyoto views: $200–$500. Key value factors: Kotozuka's Kyoto prints are popular and affordable. Seasonal temple scenes and garden views are most sought after.
An album cover print served as the visual introduction to a collection of Kotozuka's works — typically a single composition distilling the artist's central themes and aesthetic sensibility into one decisive image. For Kotozuka, whose career was defined by his Kyoto temple and garden landscapes, such a print would have presented one of his characteristic architectural or seasonal subjects with particular compositional care. The album cover context demands that the image function as both artwork and representation of an entire body of work.
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.
Album cover was created by Kotozuka Eiichi (琴塚英一) in Not set.
Album cover depicts landscapes and temples & shrines.
