In Slow Stream
Typical Price
$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.
$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.
A figure drifts in a slow stream, or leans over one, in this quietly melancholy composition by Takehisa Yumeji, the water's languid movement matching the emotional tempo of the Yumeji-style figure who inhabits it. Water in Yumeji's prints is rarely active or dramatic — it flows slowly, reflects softly, and creates the kind of suspended, dreamy atmosphere that defined the Taisho Roman aesthetic to which he was central. The figure's engagement with the stream suggests reverie, a moment of private feeling at the water's edge.
Nikko Chuzenjiko
1930
Color woodblock print; oban
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Niigata Gosaibori
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
In Slow Stream was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
In Slow Stream depicts rivers & lakes.
