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.