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.
This untitled woodblock print from Inagaki's body of work stands without a verbal label, presenting its imagery directly to the viewer without the interpretive frame that a title provides. Inagaki's prints typically feature bold, simplified forms drawn from nature, architecture, or daily life, rendered with confident carving and limited color. The untitled designation, whether a deliberate artistic choice or a gap in the historical record, places all communicative weight on the visual content of the print itself. The viewer encounters the image without textual preconditioning, free to respond to the composition's formal properties: its shapes, tonal contrasts, and the physical texture of ink pressed from carved wood onto paper.
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 (inagaki-toshijiro) was created by Inagaki Toshijiro (稲垣稔次郎).
Untitled (inagaki-toshijiro) depicts landscapes, daily life, and abstract.
