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 untitled print by Nomura Yoshimitsu belongs to the artist's body of shin-hanga work depicting Kyoto and its environs. Yoshimitsu's prints participate in a long history of artists documenting the old capital, a tradition that includes Edo-period masters who produced sets of "Famous Views of Kyoto" as well as photographers and painters who continued to record the city's changing face through the twentieth century. The woodblock format offered something that neither painting nor photography could fully replicate: a printed image whose colors were built up through translucent layers of pigment, creating luminous effects that seem to glow from within the paper. This optical quality gives Yoshimitsu's landscapes their distinctive warmth and presence.
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.
Untitled (nomura-yoshimitsu) was created by Nomura Yoshimitsu (野村義光).
Untitled (nomura-yoshimitsu) depicts landscapes, temples & shrines, and abstract.
