$500–$8,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Gekko's prolific output makes most of his work affordable. Quality varies significantly.
Rosei's dream—a Chinese legend in which the scholar Lu Sheng dreams an entire lifetime of achievement, failure, love, and loss during the brief time it takes to cook a pot of millet—was a subject rich with the Buddhist resonance of impermanence. The moment of waking, with the dream life dissolving into the reality of an unchanged roadside inn, provided Gekko with a subject of temporal dislocation that the woodblock medium's own flatness—collapsing experienced time into a single instant—could powerfully render.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Rosei’s dream was created by Ogata Gekko (尾形月耕).
Rosei’s dream depicts figures, religious, and mythology.
