$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.
Longing for Home (Bokyo), 1959, edition 3 of 50, depicts the fundamental emotional experience of the person far from home: the mountain climber's nostalgia for valley warmth, or perhaps the wartime experience of distance from Japan that had marked Azechi's own Manchurian years. Homesickness in his visual language would appear as a figure in repose or withdrawal, the body turned inward rather than outward toward the mountain, emotion compressed into the simplified forms of his folk-art style.
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.
Longing for Home (Bokyo) was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎) in 1959.
Longing for Home (Bokyo) depicts figures, travel scenes, and mountains.
