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 print extends the catalog of Kyoto-area woodblock landscapes produced by Nomura Yoshimitsu. Among shin-hanga landscape artists, Yoshimitsu occupies a distinctive position as a regional specialist whose entire body of work orbits a single city and its surrounding terrain. Where contemporaries like Kawase Hasui traveled widely across Japan to produce views of distant provinces, Yoshimitsu concentrated his attention on the familiar ground of Kyoto. This focus yielded prints that record subtle variations of light, weather, and season across locations the artist knew intimately. The specific subject of this undated, untitled work has not been recorded in available documentation, but it contributes to a sustained body of place-based observation.
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.
