Top of the Mountain
- 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.
Top of the Mountain—the summit, the climber's fundamental destination—shows Azechi's figure having arrived at the highest point of the ascent. The summit experience in his visual world was not triumphant in any exaggerated way but quietly profound: the figure standing at the place where upward movement ceased, surrounded by air rather than rock on most sides, the world visible in all directions for the first time. His bold simplified rendering gave the summit figure the stillness of arrival after the motion of ascent.
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.
Top of the Mountain was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎).
Top of the Mountain depicts landscapes and mountains.