Woman Mountain Climber
- 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.
Woman Mountain Climber—the female alpinist as Azechi's subject—acknowledges the growing participation of women in Japanese mountaineering through the mid-twentieth century. His woman climber would be depicted in the same bold simplified style as his male mountaineer figures, the gender difference rendered through body proportion and perhaps equipment or clothing rather than any qualitative distinction in the relationship to the mountain. The woman climber belonged to the same world as the man, her presence in the high places equally valid.
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.
Woman Mountain Climber was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎).
Woman Mountain Climber depicts landscapes and mountains.