Untitled - Spring Leaves Volume 1
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
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.
From what appears to be a bound album or series titled "Spring Leaves," this print by Hirezaki Eiho places his characteristic [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) sensibility within a seasonal context that carries its own aesthetic weight in Japanese art — spring, with its associations of new growth, ephemerality, and the renewal of feeling, is the season most charged with emotional meaning in the classical tradition. Eiho's spring compositions characteristically integrate seasonal indicators — cherry blossoms, fresh green growth, soft light — into the pictorial field in ways that function as emotional commentary on his female subjects rather than merely as decorative backdrop.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Untitled - Spring Leaves Volume 1 was created by Hirezaki Eiho (鰭崎英朋).
Untitled - Spring Leaves Volume 1 depicts spring and abstract.
