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.
An untitled [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) by Hirezaki Eiho (1881–1968) from his extensive printmaking career. Eiho lived to eighty-seven and worked across a remarkably long span of Japanese history — from the Meiji modernization through World War II to the postwar economic miracle — and his work reflects this historical range even within the seemingly timeless genre of bijin-ga. The specific emotional register of each period's aesthetic expectations shaped his work in subtle ways, making his oeuvre a kind of extended record of changing Japanese sensibilities around feminine beauty and its representation.
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.
