$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.
"Ine" — rice plant, the foundational crop of Japanese civilization — appears as a subject or title in this Yumeji print, perhaps depicting a woman in a rice field, or perhaps using the rice plant as a seasonal and cultural symbol. Yumeji's occasional nature subjects draw on the deep symbolic weight of Japanese agricultural culture without aestheticizing rural poverty: the rice plant is both literal and metaphorical, its seasonal cycle — planting, growth, harvest — a template for the cycles of feeling that he explored in his bijin work. The title's simplicity suggests a close relationship between image and subject.
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.
Ine was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Ine depicts landscapes, bijin-ga, and village scenes.
