First Love 10
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$500–$3,000. Common prints: $500–$1,000. Key value factors: Okamoto's colorful landscape prints are modestly priced and accessible to beginning collectors.
The tenth entry in Okamoto's First Love series, this [oban](/glossary/oban) woodblock print continues his exploration of youthful romantic feeling through the imagery of young women depicted with tenderness and idealization. The series treats first love not as narrative but as atmosphere, each numbered print offering a different mood or moment within the same emotional territory. Okamoto renders his figures with soft contours and gentle color transitions that suggest vulnerability and warmth. The woodblock medium, with its capacity for flat areas of saturated color bordered by crisp carved lines, gives the figures a presence that sits between realism and illustration. Working in the [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) tradition, Okamoto carves these tender portraits himself, translating personal vision directly into the wood.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
First Love 10 was created by Ryusei Okamoto (岡本隆生).
First Love 10 depicts figures and bijin-ga.
