Dawn
- Date:
- ca. 1920
- Medium:
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
$500–$5,000. Common landscapes: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Collaborative prints with Frank Brangwyn are most sought after.
A dawn scene — yoake — rendered in the muted, luminous tones that mark the transition from night to day. Urushibara's "Dawn," produced around 1920, demonstrates his mastery of atmospheric light, a quality that his collaboration with Brangwyn had developed through the British artist's characteristic interest in mood and tone. Whether depicting a European harbor, an English landscape, or a Japanese setting, Urushibara's treatment of dawn light shows his internalization of both Western pictorialism and Japanese tonal refinement.
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.
Dawn was created by Yoshijiro Urushibara (漆原木虫) in ca. 1920.
Dawn depicts landscapes and night scenes.
