Afterglow At Shizugatake - 賤ヶ岳残照
by Sano Seiji
- Date:
- 1996
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Ohmi Gallery
by Sano Seiji
$300–$2,000. Common prints: $300–$800. Key value factors: Sano's landscape prints are modestly priced and accessible to collectors.
Shizugatake, a mountain ridge in Shiga Prefecture famous for a pivotal 1583 battle between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Shibata Katsuie, glows under the remnants of a fading sun. Sano renders the landscape in warm, diminishing light that transforms the ridgeline into layered bands of color bleeding from amber into deep violet. The 1996 [oban](/glossary/oban) woodblock print treats the sky as the true subject, compressing the land into a narrow strip while the afterglow fills the upper two-thirds of the composition. The historic site is presented not as a battlefield but as a place where light itself performs, and the title's kanji (賤ヶ岳残照) emphasizes the lingering quality of that radiance.
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Color woodblock print; oban
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1934
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Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Afterglow At Shizugatake - 賤ヶ岳残照 was created by Sano Seiji (佐野精二) in 1996.
Afterglow At Shizugatake - 賤ヶ岳残照 depicts landscapes and mountains.
