Nakao Yoshitaka
- 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.
Nakao Yoshitaka—a proper name as title, like Ikeda Shuzo—suggests a portrait of a specific mountaineering companion or figure from the climbing community Azechi inhabited. Named individuals in his output were presumably people he knew personally, friends whose presence he wanted to preserve with the same dignity he gave his archetypal mountain man. The specific name grounds the universal figure type in a particular human being, the portrait an act of personal commemoration within his broader celebration of mountain culture.
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
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Nakao Yoshitaka was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎).
Nakao Yoshitaka depicts figures and portraits.
