Untitled, Pilgrim
- 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.
A pilgrim figure — dressed in the white clothing, sedge hat, and wooden staff of the traditional Japanese pilgrimage — walks through or rests in a landscape. The pilgrim (henro or ohenro-san) was a familiar presence in Japanese landscape, their white-clad figures moving through the countryside on routes to sacred sites. Hodo's depiction of this solitary figure within a landscape gives the subject both religious dimension and the visual interest of the human form within a natural setting.
Untitled, Pilgrim was created by Nishimura Hodo (西村蒲堂).
Untitled, Pilgrim depicts figures, travel scenes, and abstract.
