Mountain Man with Pick
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
Mountain Man with Pick—the climber equipped with the short ice pick that preceded the modern ice axe as the primary tool for snow and ice work—places Azechi's figure in an earlier phase of Japanese mountaineering equipment history. The pick's shorter handle and different balance point changed the climber's posture and movement relative to the later long-handled axe, and Azechi's attention to equipment detail gave his mountain man figures an anthropological precision underlying their bold simplified presentation.
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Featured in Collections
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Frequently Asked Questions
Mountain Man with Pick was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎).
Mountain Man with Pick depicts landscapes and mountains.