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.
Daffodils (suisen) rendered in Hodo's decorative woodblock style — the winter-blooming flower associated with the arrival of the new year and with the understated elegance of the Japanese winter garden. Unlike the showy spring flowers that followed, the daffodil's modest scale and restrained palette — white petals, yellow trumpet — embodied the Japanese aesthetic preference for quiet beauty over ostentation. Hodo's treatment captures the flowers in their characteristic nodding posture, the stems arching gracefully under the blooms' weight.
Daffodil was created by Nishimura Hodo (西村蒲堂).
Daffodil depicts birds & flowers, still life, and winter.
