Nakazawa, Hiromitsu
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
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 bearing the artist's own name as its title, suggesting this may be a self-referential work, a sample piece used for publisher catalogs, or an artwork whose original descriptive title has been lost to incomplete cataloging records. Nakazawa, active during the early twentieth century as a shin-hanga printmaker, produced works that were distributed through commercial publishers who sometimes maintained inconsistent records. The print itself would reflect his established style: refined color work, careful compositional balance, and the technical polish that resulted from the collaborative shin-hanga system where specialized carvers and printers executed the artist's design under editorial supervision.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Nakazawa, Hiromitsu was created by Hiromitsu Nakazawa (中沢弘光).
Nakazawa, Hiromitsu depicts landscapes and bijin-ga.
