First Love 8 A
- 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.
An early installment in Okamoto's First Love series, this eighth entry (variant A) depicts a young woman with the soft, idealized features that define the sequence. The variant designation suggests Okamoto produced multiple versions of this particular composition, experimenting with color combinations or printing techniques while keeping the core image intact. This practice of creating variants within a numbered series echoes the traditional [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e) method of producing different editions of a popular design, though Okamoto's approach is driven by artistic exploration rather than commercial demand. As a [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) artist who prints his own work, he can adjust ink density, color registration, and paper moisture between impressions, making each variant a genuinely distinct object.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
First Love 8 A was created by Ryusei Okamoto (岡本隆生).
First Love 8 A depicts figures and bijin-ga.
