Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
This woodblock print captures the early morning phenomenon of mist clinging to the landscape before the rising sun disperses it. Okamoto Yoshimi renders the mist as a softening presence that dissolves hard edges and mutes colors, creating a world in which familiar forms become suggestions rather than certainties. Morning mist occupies a liminal temporal space, belonging neither to night nor to the full clarity of day, and Okamoto's composition exploits this in-between quality to create an image that feels suspended in a moment of transition. The woodblock medium's capacity for subtle tonal gradation supports the rendering of mist's variable density, from near-transparency to opaque obscurity. The print shares thematic territory with Miyamoto Shufu's fog subjects but likely reflects Okamoto's distinct visual sensibility, treating mist not as a veil over landscape but as a presence with its own form and character.
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.
Morning Mist was created by Okamoto Yoshimi (岡本吉実).
Morning Mist depicts landscapes and abstract.
