Harvard Art Museum
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- ukiyo-e.org
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.
Cataloged under the Harvard Art Museum's institutional name rather than a descriptive title, this woodblock print by Nomura Yoshimitsu is held in the museum's collection of Asian art. Harvard's holdings include a substantial number of Japanese prints spanning from Edo-period ukiyo-e through twentieth-century shin-hanga, and Yoshimitsu's work sits within the latter category. The specific subject has not been recorded in available databases, though it almost certainly represents a Kyoto landscape consistent with the artist's primary focus. The print's inclusion in a major American university museum lends it scholarly provenance and places it within the broader institutional recognition of shin-hanga as a significant chapter in Japanese printmaking history.
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.
Harvard Art Museum was created by Nomura Yoshimitsu (野村義光).
Harvard Art Museum depicts landscapes and temples & shrines.
