Mountain Home
- 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.
Mountain Home—a dwelling at or above treeline, the mountain hut or temporary alpine shelter—appears in Azechi's work as the architectural counterpart to his human mountain figures. The mountain home was the space of temporary habitation that made extended time in the high places possible: simple, functional, built for the extreme conditions of alpine winters rather than human comfort. Its form—compact, low, engineered against wind and snow—gave his bold simplified style an architectural subject as reduced as his human figures.
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 Home was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎).
Mountain Home depicts landscapes and mountains.