Untitled (hiromitsu-nakazawa)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
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.
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.