Untitled (nomura-yoshimitsu)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
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.
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, temples & shrines, and abstract.