$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 frog — Kaeru — appears in this undated Yumeji print as a subject drawn from the natural world rather than the social world of his bijin figures. Yumeji's frogs share something of his bijin's characteristic stillness and watchfulness: the frog's patience, its alertness to movement, its occupation of the boundary between water and land, all echo the qualities he valued in his human figures. The frog is a classical subject in Japanese haiku and painting, and Yumeji places it within that tradition while giving it the intimate attention he brought to all his observations.
Hebizukai
1932
Color woodblock print; oban
1935
Color woodblock print; oban
1964
Acrylic paint and oil pastel with oiled charcoal and ink over an ink and graphite underdrawing on paper
1964
Color lithograph with relief block and hand coloring; edition 35/36
Kaeru - Frog was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Kaeru - Frog depicts animals.
