$500–$5,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Azechi's cheerful mountain prints have consistent demand. Larger and more complex compositions are most valued.
Snowy Mountain Village combines two of Azechi's most characteristic subject types—the snow-covered mountain and the inhabited village—in a single composition that showed the human community within its alpine environment. The village under snow had its own formal beauty: rooftops unified by their white burden, the geometric forms of domestic architecture simplified by accumulation, the human settlement made more compact and legible by winter's reduction of surface detail. Mountain and village together showed the full vertical range of the world he depicted.
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.
Snowy Mountain Village was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎).
Snowy Mountain Village depicts landscapes, snow scenes, and mountains.