Night trip
Typical Price
$1,000–$15,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Yumeji's popular image means many reproductions exist. Original prints are scarcer and more valued.
$1,000–$15,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Yumeji's popular image means many reproductions exist. Original prints are scarcer and more valued.
Two figures travel by night in this composition — a night trip with all the associations of nocturnal movement: urgency, secrecy, the heightened sensation of moving through darkness. Night travel in Taisho culture carried specific meanings — the michiyuki (lovers' journey) of Kabuki and puppet theater, where two figures walk together toward their deaths, is the most charged version of nocturnal passage. Yumeji's night trip carries that theatrical and emotional weight, the darkness both literal and symbolic, the journey both destination and escape.
Woodblock print
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Night trip was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Night trip depicts night scenes.
