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 in the 1930s [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) movement. His decorative prints in Western collections were placed there through the active marketing campaigns of publishers like Watanabe Shōzaburō, who recognized that Japanese woodblock prints could find appreciative audiences among collectors in Europe and North America who valued the combination of traditional craftsmanship and aesthetic refinement that shin-hanga prints represented.
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.
