Deshima from the series Twelve Views of Nagasaki (Nagasaki junikei no uchi)
- Series:
- Twelve Views of Nagasaki
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
$1,000–$15,000. Reproductions and common prints: $1,000–$3,000. Key value factors: Yumeji's popular image means many reproductions exist. Original prints are scarcer and more valued.
Deshima — the small artificial island in Nagasaki harbor where Dutch traders were confined during Japan's two centuries of sakoku isolation — is depicted in this print from Yumeji's "Twelve Views of Nagasaki" series, the historic trading post rendered with a wistful awareness of the isolation and longing it represented. Nagasaki, Japan's most international city through the Edo period, held special resonance for Yumeji, whose own work synthesized Japanese and Western aesthetic traditions. Deshima's history of enforced separation between East and West echoes his preoccupations.
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.
Deshima from the series Twelve Views of Nagasaki (Nagasaki junikei no uchi) was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Yes — Deshima from the series Twelve Views of Nagasaki (Nagasaki junikei no uchi) is part of the Twelve Views of Nagasaki series by Takehisa Yumeji.
Deshima from the series Twelve Views of Nagasaki (Nagasaki junikei no uchi) depicts landscapes, set at Nagasaki.
