Retreating Sun
by Nishijima Katsuyuki (b. 1945)
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- Type
- Original woodblock print
- First edition
- 1976
- This edition
- Lifetime edition
- Image size
- 19.7 × 27.3 cm
- Signing
- Hand-signed
- Condition
- Excellent
Description
Nishijima Katsuyuki depicts the sun setting and coloring the sky over traditional Japanese rooftops. The endlessness of nature is a common theme in Japanese woodblock printing, and the many depictions of sunsets by Nishijima Katsuyuki are one of the ways this theme is reflected in his work.