Unknown
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Key value factors: Edition order (first Watanabe/Doi printing vs. posthumous reprints) is crucial. Snow scenes, night views, and bijin-ga typically command premiums. Publisher seals and artist signatures authenticate first editions.
This unidentified woodblock print by Nishiyama Hideo most likely depicts a landscape from the Lake Biwa region or another scenic area of central Japan that formed the core of his artistic territory. While the specific location remains unrecorded, the print exhibits the qualities that define Nishiyama's landscape work: sensitivity to atmospheric conditions, carefully observed regional topography, and a color palette tuned to the particular light of a season and time of day. The composition follows the conventions of Japanese landscape printmaking, arranging foreground, middle ground, and distance into a coherent spatial progression, while the woodblock technique delivers the layered color and subtle gradation that Nishiyama employed throughout his career.
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.
Unknown was created by Nishiyama Hideo (西山英雄).
Unknown uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.
Unknown depicts landscapes.
