$1,000–$8,000. Common fish prints: $1,000–$2,500. Key value factors: The 'Great Japanese Fish' series is his signature work and most collected. Individual fish prints vary in desirability. Complete sets are rare.
"Rice Paddy" presents the flooded paddy field as a visual and ecological subject in its own right — the shallow, mirror-still water between the planted rows reflecting sky and clouds, the geometry of planting rows creating a human-made landscape of regular intervals that is simultaneously agricultural and aesthetic. Bakufu's careful eye, trained on the precise forms of fish and plant specimens, brings the same observational clarity to this cultivated landscape, rendering the rice paddy as a microcosm of Japan's relationship with water, soil, and cultivation.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Rice paddy was created by Ohno Bakufu (大野麦風).
Rice paddy depicts snow scenes and food & drink.
