$500–$5,000. Common mountain prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Azechi's cheerful mountain prints have consistent demand. Larger and more complex compositions are most valued.
Black Hair—a woman's dark hair as subject and title—places Azechi in the [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) adjacent territory he occasionally visited alongside his primary mountain subject matter. The specific quality of black Japanese hair, its weight and luster, the way it organized the visual field when a woman moved or turned, was a subject with deep roots in Japanese art. His bold, simplified treatment would have reduced the hair's flowing mass to a powerful shape-based composition, the black form dominant against lighter ground.
1944 (printed c. 1950 from recut block?)
Color woodblock print; oban
1944 (printed c. 1950 from recut block?)
Color woodblock print; oban
1945
Color woodblock print
1961
Color woodblock print; edition 10/100
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Black Hair was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎).
Black Hair depicts figures, bijin-ga, and portraits.
