Setting Sun at Iseshima
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
Typical Price
$500–$8,000. Common later works: $500–$2,000. Key value factors: Hagiwara's abstract works are collected by both Japanese print and modern art collectors.
Description
Setting Sun at Iseshima renders the sunset over the Ise-Shima coastline — the rocky inlets and island-scattered bay that characterize the Kii Peninsula's outer coast glowing in the orange and crimson light of the dying sun. Hagiwara's treatment pushed the sunset observation toward the kind of color abstraction that his multi-block technique enabled at its most expressive — the precise gradations of color as the sun drops through the western sky captured through careful layer-by-layer color printing. The sacred associations of the Ise landscape gave the sunset subject additional spiritual weight.
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Lake Kugushi in Wakasa Province (Wakasa Kugushiko), from the series Souvenirs of Travel I (Tabi miyage dai isshu)"
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1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Autumn Maple Leaves at Takao, from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei)
Woodblock print
The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province (Sanuki Kaiganji no hama), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fukei shu II Kansai hen)"
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Tea Kettle, section of a sheet from the series "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces" (Kohon meihitsu ishizuri kagami)
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Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Setting Sun at Iseshima was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄).
Setting Sun at Iseshima depicts landscapes and seascapes.