Key value factors: Edition order (first Watanabe/Doi printing vs. posthumous reprints) is crucial. Snow scenes, night views, and bijin-ga typically command premiums. Publisher seals and artist signatures authenticate first editions.
A cluster of thatched and tiled farmhouses sits amid fields and trees near the mountain temples of Nikko in this rural landscape by Yuhan Ito. The print depicts the village life that surrounded Japan's great sacred sites — an ordinary world coexisting with the extraordinary — and Ito treats it with the same atmospheric care he brings to grander subjects. The composition is modest and unhurried, a record of a village Japan that was already beginning to disappear in the 1930s when Ito was most active.
Noka no aki (Miyagi ken Ayashi
1946
Color woodblock print
Woodblock print
1956
Color woodblock print
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Village Near Nikko was created by Yuhan Ito (伊藤雄半).
Village Near Nikko depicts village scenes, set at Nikko.
