Rice Planting
- Date:
- Not set
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Typical Price
$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.
Description
Rice planting — the annual ritual of transplanting young rice seedlings from their seedbeds into flooded paddies, traditionally performed by groups of bent figures working through ankle-deep water — is one of the oldest subjects in Japanese landscape art. The scene carries both documentary and symbolic weight: the labor of rice cultivation underpins Japanese civilization, and the visual poetry of figures bent in the flooded fields under an early summer sky has been painted and printed for centuries. Kotozuka's treatment brings this rural subject into his landscape practice.
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Miyajima in Snow (Yuki no Miyajima)
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
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Evening Snow at Shiha Park, Tokyo
1932
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Rice Planting was created by Kotozuka Eiichi (琴塚英一) in Not set.
Rice Planting depicts snow scenes and food & drink.