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.
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.
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, rivers & lakes, and abstract.
