Untitled (hiromitsu-nakazawa)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
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.
More Prints by Hiromitsu Nakazawa
More Landscapes Prints
Lake Kugushi in Wakasa Province (Wakasa Kugushiko), from the series Souvenirs of Travel I (Tabi miyage dai isshu)"
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Autumn Maple Leaves at Takao, from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei)
Woodblock print
The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province (Sanuki Kaiganji no hama), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fukei shu II Kansai hen)"
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Tea Kettle, section of a sheet from the series "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces" (Kohon meihitsu ishizuri kagami)
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Untitled (hiromitsu-nakazawa) was created by Hiromitsu Nakazawa (中沢弘光).
Untitled (hiromitsu-nakazawa) depicts landscapes, bijin-ga, and abstract.