Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
A woodblock print depicting Anno Temple, rendered in the careful architectural detail that marks Nakazawa's temple studies. The composition focuses on the temple structures and their relationship to the surrounding landscape, likely capturing the rooflines, entrance gates, and courtyard spaces that define Japanese Buddhist temple compounds. Nakazawa produced a significant body of temple and shrine prints throughout his career, documenting sacred sites across Japan with the precision encouraged by shin-hanga publishers. These architectural subjects required close collaboration between artist and carver to faithfully reproduce the intricate joinery and curved roof forms characteristic of Japanese religious architecture.
伏見稲荷
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Uji Byodoin no ichibu
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
ANNO Temple was created by Hiromitsu Nakazawa (中沢弘光).
ANNO Temple depicts temples & shrines.
