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.
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.
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.
