First Love 14
- 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.
Number fourteen in the First Love series extends Okamoto's sustained meditation on early romantic experience. Each installment revisits the theme from a slightly different angle, and by the fourteenth entry the series has accumulated enough variations to function as a visual poem cycle. The young woman depicted here carries the same air of gentle introspection that runs through the entire sequence, but specific details of pose, costume, or background setting distinguish this impression from its companions. Okamoto's hand-carved woodblocks produce lines of varying weight and character, lending the figure an organic quality that digital reproduction or photographic printmaking cannot achieve. The [oban](/glossary/oban) format gives the portrait a scale suited to contemplation.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
First Love 14 was created by Ryusei Okamoto (岡本隆生).
First Love 14 depicts figures and bijin-ga.
