$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.
Thunder over farming land — the dark, charged sky of a summer storm approaching over open paddy fields or cultivated terraces — presents Kotozuka with an unusual atmospheric subject of raw natural power. The farming landscape of Japan, with its open exposure and its dependence on summer rains, is particularly subject to the dramatic confrontations of summer thunderstorms, and the Japanese tradition includes landscape images of storms building over fields. Kotozuka's treatment of this scene would balance the darkness of the storm-sky against the greens of the agricultural landscape below.
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.
Thunder in the Farming Land was created by Kotozuka Eiichi (琴塚英一) in Not set.
Thunder in the Farming Land depicts landscapes, rain, and summer.
