$200–$1,500. Common prints: $200–$500. Key value factors: Ebina's prints are modestly priced and accessible to beginning collectors of Japanese creative prints.
This print is the 54th in Ebina's complete illustrated sequence of The Tale of Genji, which contains exactly 54 chapters. The final chapter, "The Floating Bridge of Dreams" (Yume no ukihashi), ends the novel mid-sentence, its conclusion withheld — a gesture of incompleteness that has fascinated readers and scholars for a millennium. Ebina's illustration of this closing chapter would have required distilling the accumulated weight of the entire narrative into a single image: the oneiric bridge between worlds that the title promises but never fully reveals.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Illustrations for Genji Monogatari (54) was created by Ebina Masao (海老名正夫).
Illustrations for Genji Monogatari (54) depicts figures, mythology, and interiors.
