Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
Bamboo and Mountain pairs two subjects that together compose one of the fundamental landscape types in East Asian art. Bamboo, with its vertical stalks and feathery leaves, provides a foreground screen through which the mountain is viewed, creating depth and layered space within the picture plane. Imoto Tekiho renders this classic pairing in woodblock, translating the brushwork quality of traditional ink painting into the carved and printed vocabulary of the print medium. Bamboo is one of the most demanding subjects in ink painting, where each stalk must be drawn in a single confident stroke, and Tekiho's woodblock version preserves something of that calligraphic decisiveness in the carved lines. The mountain beyond provides mass and stability against the bamboo's linear lightness.
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.
Bamboo and Mountain was created by Imoto Tekiho (井元荻浦).
Bamboo and Mountain depicts landscapes, trees, and mountains.
