Yoshimitsu

Bearing the artist's given name as its title, this woodblock print may represent a self-referential work, a signature piece, or simply a catalog entry where the descriptive title was not recorded. Nomura Yoshimitsu produced shin-hanga landscape prints focused primarily on Kyoto and its surrounding region, building a body of work that documented the old capital's temples, waterways, mountains, and seasonal transformations. The use of the artist's name alone as the title is unusual in shin-hanga practice, where prints were typically identified by their depicted location or subject. The print contributes to the broader catalog of an artist whose patient, repeated engagement with a single geographic region produced a visual archive of mid-twentieth-century Kyoto rendered in the traditional woodblock medium.