$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kurosaki's bold, colorful prints appeal to collectors of both Japanese and international contemporary art.
This woodblock print is associated with Ronin Gallery, a prominent New York dealer specializing in Japanese prints. Kurosaki's work tagged with warrior imagery suggests a departure from his more common abstract landscapes, engaging instead with the samurai tradition that has deep roots in Japanese printmaking. The ronin, a masterless samurai, carries symbolic weight as a figure of independence and self-determination, qualities that parallel Kurosaki's own position as a sosaku hanga artist who rejected the collaborative workshop system. Whether the print literally depicts a warrior figure or abstracts the concept into non-representational form, it connects Kurosaki's modernist practice to centuries of Japanese visual culture centered on martial subjects.
Woodblock print
c. 1828/30
Color woodblock print; surimono
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Ronin Gallery was created by Akira Kurosaki (黒崎彰).
Ronin Gallery depicts warriors.
