Unknown- Mountain man with ice pick
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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.