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 by Yoshimitsu is part of a group of works whose subjects have not been individually documented in available databases. The artist's known output centers on Kyoto and the surrounding Kansai region, and this print almost certainly depicts a scene within that geographic range. Yoshimitsu favored subjects that combined architectural elements with natural settings: a temple gate framed by trees, a stone bridge crossing a stream, or a pagoda rising above a hillside of maples. The shin-hanga production method required close coordination between artist, carver, and printer, with each color in the design requiring a separately carved block that had to align precisely with every other block in the sequence.
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.
