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 untitled works in Nomura Yoshimitsu's catalog, this woodblock print contributes to the broader picture of an artist who dedicated his practice to recording Kyoto's built and natural environment. Yoshimitsu's landscape prints function as both aesthetic objects and quiet documents of place, preserving views that in many cases have been altered by twentieth-century development. The unnamed subject here likely depicts one of the many scenes the artist observed along temple paths, canal banks, or hillside trails. The woodblock technique he employed, with its characteristic flat color areas bounded by crisp key-block lines, gives these landscapes a clarity and stillness that photography of the same locations rarely achieves.
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.
