Mount Bandai
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- mfa
Typical Price
$500–$4,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Maekawa's early sosaku-hanga works are historically significant. Bold, expressive prints are most valued.
Description
Mount Bandai — the volcanic mountain in Fukushima Prefecture that catastrophically erupted in 1888, creating the plateau landscape of Urabandai — is Senpan's subject in this undated print, the mountain rendered with the directness and warmth that characterize his landscape compositions. Bandai's eruption was one of modern Japan's great natural disasters, and the mountain retained its power as a landscape subject long after the immediate memory of the catastrophe faded — its broken, asymmetrical profile visible evidence of the geological force that had reshaped it.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Mount Bandai was created by Maekawa Senpan (前川千帆).
Mount Bandai depicts landscapes and mountains.