Untitled (hiromitsu-nakazawa)

Medium:

Woodblock print

Source:

Typical Price

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.

Common examples: $100–$500
Good impressions: $500–$2,000
Premium/scarce: $2,000–$10,000

Description

A second untitled woodblock print by Nakazawa, part of a group of works in his catalog that lack identifying titles. The shin-hanga publishing system typically assigned titles to every print in an edition, so the absence here likely indicates gaps in the provenance chain rather than deliberately unnamed works. Nakazawa worked across several genres, from the idealized female figures of bijin-ga to the architectural precision of his temple studies and the atmospheric qualities of his landscape views. This untitled print would originally have been issued with title information printed in the margin block or inscribed on the publisher's wrapper, details that may have been separated from the image over decades of collection changes and dealer transactions.