Sakurajima in Morning Light, Kageshima, Kyushu
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Art of Japan
Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
Sakurajima in Morning Light, Kagoshima, Kyushu captures the active volcano that dominates Kagoshima Bay at the southern tip of Japan's main islands. Sakurajima erupts regularly, sending ash plumes into the sky above Kagoshima city, and Maeda chose to depict it in the particular glow of early morning when the rising sun illuminates the mountain's cone and the steam or smoke at its summit catches golden light. The woodblock medium translates this play of light and volcanic atmosphere into registered layers of color, the mountain's solid mass rendered through the same carved-wood process that captures the ethereal quality of dawn light on rising vapor.
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.
Sakurajima in Morning Light, Kageshima, Kyushu was created by Maeda Toshiro (前田藤四郎).
Sakurajima in Morning Light, Kageshima, Kyushu depicts landscapes, seascapes, and mountains.
