$800–$6,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Miki Suizan's Kyoto maiko prints are the most popular. Condition and subject matter are key value factors.
Nijo Castle, the Tokugawa shoguns' Kyoto residence, sits behind stone walls and broad moats in the center of the city. Suizan frames the castle beneath a luminous moon, the pale disk casting silver light across the fortified rooflines and the dark water of the surrounding moat. The juxtaposition of moonlight with martial architecture creates a mood of historical melancholy: by Suizan's time, the castle had been centuries removed from its political function, standing as a monument to vanished power. The woodblock printing builds the night sky through layered blue-black impressions with a circular reserve for the moon, a technique requiring precise carving to achieve a clean, glowing edge. Suizan positions the viewer outside the moat, looking in across still water that mirrors both the castle walls and the moon above, doubling the composition's luminous elements.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Moon at Nijo Castle - 二条城の月 was created by Miki Suizan (三木翠山).
Moon at Nijo Castle - 二条城の月 was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Moon at Nijo Castle - 二条城の月 depicts castles, moonlight, and night scenes.
