Village Landscape
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
$500–$4,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: As an early sosaku-hanga pioneer, Kawakami's prints have historical significance. His distinctive graphic style is collected.
"Village Landscape" presents the visual character of a Japanese village settlement — the clustered rooflines, the human scale of the buildings, the integration of the village into its surrounding agricultural or forest landscape — through Kawakami's simplified, structurally clear compositional approach. Village landscapes were among the subjects that grounded his work in observed Japanese reality alongside his historical fantasies about Nagasaki traders and cross-cultural encounters: the ordinary Japan of small communities living close to the land and to each other.
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.
Village Landscape was created by Sumio Kawakami (川上澄生).
Village Landscape depicts landscapes and village scenes.
