About This Print

Primarily known as a Wester-style (yōga) landscape painter, Ishikawa self-published a number of woodblock prints (possibly using the publishing name Ryokū-so Gashitsu 緑雨荘画室版), working with excellent carvers and printers to transfer his designs into prints.  In addition to his best-known print series Ten Types of Female Nudes, Ishikawa published a number of landscape prints.  This print, originally published by the artist c. 1935, shows three farmers selling their produce at an unknown location in Japan's Ryukyu Islands, the best known of which is Okinawa.  Ishikawa had a fascination with native peoples which can be traced back to visits he made to Taiwan in the early 1900s.