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 woodblock print is the last of the undocumented landscape entries in Nomura Yoshimitsu's catalog. Taken together, the titled and untitled works form a comprehensive visual survey of the Kyoto region as seen through the lens of shin-hanga printmaking. Yoshimitsu's practice of returning repeatedly to the same geographic area gave his prints an accumulated depth of knowledge: he understood how light fell across particular temple roofs at different hours, how snow settled along specific stretches of riverbank, how autumn color progressed from the hilltops downward into the valleys. This intimacy with place, even when individual titles are lost, distinguishes his work from prints by artists who visited Kyoto only briefly.
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.
