Mountain Guide No.1 (Yama-otoko 1)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- mfa
$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.
Mountain Guide No. 1 (Yama-otoko 1)—the yama-otoko (mountain man) title connecting the guide to the folkloric mountain spirit of the same name—depicts the professional guide whose livelihood and identity were entirely shaped by their relationship to the high terrain. The guide's role was to transmit mountain knowledge to those without it, a form of teaching through the body and through terrain rather than language. Azechi's rendering gave this figure a particular authority, the first in what appears to have been a numbered series.
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.
Mountain Guide No.1 (Yama-otoko 1) was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎).
Mountain Guide No.1 (Yama-otoko 1) depicts landscapes and mountains.