Calling To the Mountain — Yama ni Sakebu
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$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.
Calling to the Mountain (Yama ni Sakebu) depicts the mountain climber's primal response to the heights—the shout directed outward across ridges and valleys, the echo returning changed, the act of voice making the mountain's scale tangible through the seconds of delay. The yell or cry toward the peaks was a ritual element of mountaineering culture in Japan, and Azechi's rendering shows the figure in the expansive posture of someone whose lungs and voice have opened outward into alpine space.
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
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.
Calling To the Mountain — Yama ni Sakebu was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎).
Calling To the Mountain — Yama ni Sakebu depicts landscapes and mountains.