Key value factors: Edition order (first Watanabe/Doi printing vs. posthumous reprints) is crucial. Snow scenes, night views, and bijin-ga typically command premiums. Publisher seals and artist signatures authenticate first editions.
A nineteenth untitled [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) by Hirezaki Eiho (1881–1968). The bijin-ga tradition in which Eiho worked had been central to Japanese printmaking since the seventeenth century, when masters such as Kaigetsudo and Torii Kiyonobu established the precedent of the beautiful woman as a primary subject for the woodblock medium. Eiho's place in this tradition is that of a late master who brought twentieth-century psychological awareness and nihonga painting technique to what had been, in its Edo origins, a more stylized and less individually characterized genre.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Untitled (hirezaki-eiho) was created by Hirezaki Eiho (鰭崎英朋).
Untitled (hirezaki-eiho) depicts figures, bijin-ga, and abstract.
