Unknown- Mountain man with ice pick
- 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.
Unknown Mountain Man with Ice Pick—the mountain figure carrying the earlier form of the ice axe, the pick used for self-arrest and step-cutting on steep snow and ice—shows Azechi's attention to the specific equipment that defined different eras of Japanese alpinism. The short-handled ice pick gave the climber's figure a different posture than the later long-handled axe, and his rendering of the equipment-carrying mountain man served as inadvertent documentation of the technical mountaineering history he inhabited.
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.
Unknown- Mountain man with ice pick was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎).
Unknown- Mountain man with ice pick depicts landscapes and mountains.