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 third untitled work in Nakazawa's catalog, representing the kind of attribution gap that is common among early twentieth-century Japanese prints whose documentation was lost or never translated during transfer between Japanese and Western collections. As prints passed through dealers, auctions, and private hands, the accompanying title slips and publisher records were sometimes misplaced, leaving the image itself as the sole surviving evidence of the work's subject and intent. Nakazawa's prints, distributed through commercial channels to both domestic and international buyers, were particularly susceptible to this kind of documentation loss when they entered Western collections where Japanese-language records were not always preserved.
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.
Untitled (hiromitsu-nakazawa) was created by Hiromitsu Nakazawa (中沢弘光).
Untitled (hiromitsu-nakazawa) depicts landscapes, bijin-ga, and abstract.
