Fushimiinari Mountain- Niyama — 伏見稲荷山
- 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.
Fushimi Inari Taisha, the great Shinto shrine in southern Kyoto, is famed for its thousands of vermillion torii gates that march up the forested slopes of Mount Inari. This woodblock print depicts the mountain itself, referred to here as Niyama, with the Japanese title identifying the subject as Fushimi Inari-yama. Yoshimitsu would have been intimately familiar with this landmark, which sits within the network of sacred sites he documented across the Kyoto region. The mountain's dense tree cover, punctuated by the bright orange-red of the torii gates, offers a rich interplay between natural and architectural forms. The print likely balances the lush green canopy against the geometric repetition of the shrine gates, a subject that tests the woodblock printer's ability to render both organic textures and crisp man-made structures within a single composition.
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.
Fushimiinari Mountain- Niyama — 伏見稲荷山 was created by Nomura Yoshimitsu (野村義光).
Fushimiinari Mountain- Niyama — 伏見稲荷山 depicts landscapes and mountains.
