Scene of a Farm by a River
by Miki Suizan
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
by Miki Suizan
$800–$6,000. Common subjects: $800–$2,000. Key value factors: Miki Suizan's Kyoto maiko prints are the most popular. Condition and subject matter are key value factors.
A rural landscape unfolds along a riverbank where farm buildings sit amid cultivated fields and tree-lined banks. Suizan steps away from his more common Kyoto temple and urban subjects to record the agricultural countryside that surrounds the city, where rice paddies and vegetable plots have been tended for centuries. The [oban](/glossary/oban) composition stretches horizontally to convey the flat expanse of farmland meeting the river's edge, with the water providing a natural boundary between worked land and wild terrain. The seasonal setting appears to be spring or early summer, with fresh growth softening the hard geometry of plowed fields and thatched or tiled rooftops. Suizan renders this working landscape without sentimentality, treating the farm buildings and their setting as subjects worthy of the same careful observation he brings to temple precincts and festival scenes.
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.
Scene of a Farm by a River was created by Miki Suizan (三木翠山).
Scene of a Farm by a River was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Scene of a Farm by a River depicts landscapes and rivers & lakes.
