Early Spring in a Village
by Nishijima Katsuyuki (b. 1945)
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- Type
- Original woodblock print
- First edition
- 2000
- This impression
- Lifetime edition
- Image size
- 25.8 × 37.9 cm
- Signing
- Hand-signed
- Edition
- 127 of 500
Description
A calm day, probably in spring. Two buildings can be seen in the fields, from behind flowers and grass. A traditional technique used often by woodblock print artists to enhance the perception of depth. This is further reinforced by the rest of the composition, with first a line of trees rising behind the buildings. Even further away, multiple mountain ranges can be seen, still partly covered in the snow of winter. Finally, the snowy borders of the mountain ranges give way to a number of equally white, scattered clouds up in the sky.