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.
An undocumented landscape print from Yoshimitsu's shin-hanga production, this work belongs to the body of Kyoto-area views that constitute the artist's primary contribution to twentieth-century Japanese printmaking. Yoshimitsu's prints are distinguished by their intimate scale of observation: rather than sweeping panoramic views, he tended to focus on particular stretches of path, specific groupings of trees, or a single building glimpsed through foliage. This close-range approach gives his landscapes a quality of personal experience, as if the viewer has just rounded a bend and encountered the scene for the first time. The exact location and season depicted in this untitled print remain unrecorded in available catalogs.
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.
