Unknown Farm woman tilling field
- 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.
A farm woman tilling a field — bent over her work in the traditional posture of hand-cultivation, the tools of traditional agriculture visible in the scene — represents one of Kotozuka's most explicitly documentary subjects. The agricultural labor that sustained Japanese rural life through centuries of rice and vegetable cultivation rarely appeared in [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) landscape art, which tended toward scenic beauty rather than working life; Kotozuka's engagement with this subject reflects the broader [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) interest in the full range of human experience.
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.
Unknown Farm woman tilling field was created by Kotozuka Eiichi (琴塚英一) in Not set.
Unknown Farm woman tilling field depicts landscapes.
