$500–$8,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Gekko's prolific output makes most of his work affordable. Quality varies significantly.
Shunkan in exile—the Buddhist monk exiled to a volcanic island by the Taira clan for participation in a plot against them, later abandoned when the amnesty pardon arrived too late for him—was one of Japanese literature's most poignant figures of solitary suffering. The island exile's desperate situation, watching the pardon boat depart without him, had been immortalized in the Heike Monogatari and staged in Noh and Kabuki. Gekko's rendering would capture that moment of final abandonment.
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.
Shunkan in exile was created by Ogata Gekko (尾形月耕).
Shunkan in exile depicts landscapes, figures, and religious.
