Remote Village
- Date:
- Later edition of 1950s design
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$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.
The 1950 Remote Village shows Azechi applying his bold simplified style to the isolated settlements that existed at the margins of accessible Japan—communities reachable only on foot, their isolation shaped by the terrain that surrounded them. The remote village was both a geographical fact and a cultural type: a community that had preserved older ways because the modern world's convenience networks had not penetrated its approaches. His rendering gives the village's isolation visible form through compositional simplicity.
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
Noka no aki (Miyagi ken Ayashi
1946
Color woodblock print
Woodblock print
1956
Color woodblock print
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Remote Village was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎) in Later edition of 1950s design.
Remote Village depicts village scenes.