Title: 朝日岳 (Mt. Asahi).
Artist: Gihachiro Okuyama (1907-1981).
Signed & Dated: Signed and titled in pencil to margins. 朝日岳 (Mt. Asahi), 奥山儀八郎 (Okuyama Gihachiro). Artist seal to lower right of image. Circa 1960/70’s.
Medium: Woodblock Print.
Paper Size: H: 24.25cm x W: 48.50cm.
Condition: Good. Light surface wrinkles as with age. Please refer to photos / Contact for any further questions & condition report.
Notes: A spectacular print by Gihachiro Okuyama. 朝日岳 Mt.Asahi/Asahidake is Hokkaido’s highest mountain at 7516ft & part of Japan’s largest National Park - Daisetsuzan National Park. Known as Kamui-mintara, “Playground of the Gods”, to the native Ainu people - Mt.Asahi remains a designated active volcano by Japan’s Meteorological Agency and a spectacular setting for both hiking & skiing during the summer/winter months. A rare example of his larger, pencil signed prints of the early 1950’s. (Blog: Mount Asahidake hike – climb Hokkaido’s highest volcano - www.worldbesthikes.com). *(Pencil Signed) - Of Okuyama’s rarer, larger-sized, pencil-signed edition.
Title: 朝日岳 (Mt. Asahi).
Artist: Gihachiro Okuyama (1907-1981).
Signed & Dated: Signed and titled in pencil to margins. 朝日岳 (Mt. Asahi), 奥山儀八郎 (Okuyama Gihachiro). Artist seal to lower right of image. Circa 1960/70’s.
Medium: Woodblock Print.
Paper Size: H: 24.25cm x W: 48.50cm.
Condition: Good. Light surface wrinkles as with age. Please refer to photos / Contact for any further questions & condition report.
Notes: A spectacular print by Gihachiro Okuyama. 朝日岳 Mt.Asahi/Asahidake is Hokkaido’s highest mountain at 7516ft & part of Japan’s largest National Park - Daisetsuzan National Park. Known as Kamui-mintara, “Playground of the Gods”, to the native Ainu people - Mt.Asahi remains a designated active volcano by Japan’s Meteorological Agency and a spectacular setting for both hiking & skiing during the summer/winter months. A rare example of his larger, pencil signed prints of the early 1950’s. (Blog: Mount Asahidake hike – climb Hokkaido’s highest volcano - www.worldbesthikes.com). *(Pencil Signed) - Of Okuyama’s rarer, larger-sized, pencil-signed edition.
