Mountain Man with Pick
- 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 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.
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 Man with Pick was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎).
Mountain Man with Pick depicts landscapes and mountains.