Lilies
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
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.
Lilies rendered in Hodo's woodblock technique — their broad, open blooms and distinctive spotted petals (if tiger or Asiatic lilies) or pure white forms (if Madonna lilies) given graphic treatment through the layered color printing of the shin-hanga process. The lily was a subject rich with associations in Japanese floral tradition: summer bloom, purity, and a somewhat exotic presence in the garden that made it a popular kachō-ga subject. Hodo's precise botanical observation is evident in the careful rendering of petal form and color.
Lilies was created by Nishimura Hodo (西村蒲堂).
Lilies depicts birds & flowers, still life, and summer.
