Untitled (nomura-yoshimitsu)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
Without a title to anchor it to a specific site, this woodblock print by Nomura Yoshimitsu represents the artist's broader engagement with the Kyoto landscape tradition. The shin-hanga movement revived the Edo-period practice of producing sets of famous-place views, and Yoshimitsu's work belongs to this lineage even when individual prints lack formal titles. His compositions typically establish depth through layered planes of foreground foliage, middle-ground architecture, and distant hills or sky, a spatial structure inherited from the great landscape masters Hiroshige and Hokusai but rendered with the softer, more naturalistic color palette that defines shin-hanga. The print was executed using water-based pigments on washi paper, pulled by hand from carved cherry wood blocks.
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.