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.
An untitled Nishimura Hodo woodblock print from his active period. Hodo's work within the [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) tradition combined his artistic sensibility with the technical infrastructure of professional Japanese printmaking, producing prints that maintained the high standards of the movement while engaging with the decorative subjects — beautiful women, seasonal flowers, celebrated landscapes — that its audience found most appealing.
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 (hodo-nishimura) was created by Nishimura Hodo (西村蒲堂).
Untitled (hodo-nishimura) depicts landscapes and abstract.
