by Maeda Masao
$500–$4,000. Common landscapes: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Maeda Masao's atmospheric mountain and landscape prints have a dedicated following among sosaku-hanga collectors.
Lake Toya — the large caldera lake in southwestern Hokkaido, one of the most scenically beautiful in Japan — is depicted here in one of Maeda Masao's Hokkaido landscape prints. Born in Hakodate and maintaining a deep connection to the northernmost main island throughout his life, Maeda brought particular intimacy to his Hokkaido subjects, Lake Toya's circular caldera and central volcanic island offering him exceptional compositional material. The lake's characteristic combination of deep blue water, the wooded caldera rim, and the dramatic volcanic island — Nakajima — gave the subject a quality of elemental geological grandeur.
Nikko Chuzenjiko
1930
Color woodblock print; oban
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Niigata Gosaibori
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Lake Toya was created by Maeda Masao (前田政雄).
Lake Toya depicts rivers & lakes.
