mountain cloud coming and going
HIgashiyama Kaii
(Japanese style painter)
Artwork Information
- Title: “Sangun kyorai
- Year: 1986
- Technique: woodcut
- Limited edition: 280 copies
- Original: 1981
- Original Collection: Nagano Prefectural Museum of Art / Higashiyama Kaii Museum
- Location: Shirakawa Village, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
- Printed by: TAIKO FIRST
- Engraver: Hanbei Okura
- Suriri: Nakajo Koshio
Characteristics
- This is a work in which Higashiyama Kaii confronts nature and approaches the essence of nature.
- The original was produced in 1981 and is in the collection of the Nagano Prefectural Museum of Art / Higashiyama Kaii Kan.
- This woodblock print was made during Kaii Higashiyama's lifetime, under his supervision.
- In 1973, in preparation for the Toshodaiji temple wall painting, Higashiyama Kaii traveled around Japan and made over 100 sketches of mountains and seas. The study for “Sangun” (shown below) is the original of this work, which is one of the representative works of Higashiyama's art.
Othe
- In the market, there is a lot of information that the work has been sold.
- Kaii Higashiyama's works are very popular, and this “Mountain Clouds and the Future” is especially appreciated as one of his representative works.
Size: Picture size h40cm x width 55cm Frame size h60.5cm x width 76cm
Media: Japanese paper
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