Untitled (nomura-yoshimitsu)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
Among the undocumented woodblock prints in Yoshimitsu's catalog, this work represents the artist's ongoing commitment to recording the Kyoto landscape through the shin-hanga medium. The city's geography, bounded by mountains on three sides and bisected by the Kamo and Katsura rivers, provides a natural framework for landscape composition. Yoshimitsu exploited this topography to create prints with strong spatial structure, using river valleys as middle-ground channels and hillsides as backdrop elements. The exact scene depicted here remains unidentified, but it was produced using the same collaborative method of artist-designed, professionally carved and printed woodblock impressions that characterizes all of Yoshimitsu's known output.
More Prints by Nomura Yoshimitsu
More Landscapes Prints
Lake Kugushi in Wakasa Province (Wakasa Kugushiko), from the series Souvenirs of Travel I (Tabi miyage dai isshu)"
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Autumn Maple Leaves at Takao, from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei)
Woodblock print
The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province (Sanuki Kaiganji no hama), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fukei shu II Kansai hen)"
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Tea Kettle, section of a sheet from the series "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces" (Kohon meihitsu ishizuri kagami)
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Untitled (nomura-yoshimitsu) was created by Nomura Yoshimitsu (野村義光).
Untitled (nomura-yoshimitsu) depicts landscapes, rivers & lakes, and abstract.