$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 Village—the settlement at the foot of or within the mountain terrain, where people lived year-round in the conditions that climbers visited only seasonally—represents Azechi's connection to the human community that inhabited the alpine world permanently. The mountain village was the ground-level counterpart to the summit: both locations in the mountain world, but one defined by the daily rhythms of agricultural and domestic life, the other by the extreme conditions of high elevation.
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 Village was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎).
Mountain Village depicts landscapes, mountains, and village scenes.