![Title unknown [Michiyuki] by Takehisa Yumeji — Japanese Woodblock print, ink and color on paper, 1910s–1930s](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/132723.jpg)
$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.
"Michiyuki" — the lovers' journey, a standard scene in Kabuki and puppet theater in which two figures walk toward their shared fate — appears in this Taisho-era composition from Yumeji's "Title unknown" group of prints at the Boston Museum. The michiyuki tradition gave Yumeji a theatrical framework for his deepest preoccupation: the impossible love that ends in death, the beauty of a feeling so intense it cannot survive contact with the world. His michiyuki prints translate the theatrical convention into the intimate scale of his own visual language.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Title unknown [Michiyuki] was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二) in 1910s–1930s.
Title unknown [Michiyuki] depicts figures, bijin-ga, and travel scenes.
Title unknown [Michiyuki] measures 18.4 × 12.1 cm (Oban format).
