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.
Titled with a reference to Bakufu Ohno's "Familiar Fishes of Nippon" series, this woodblock print depicts an ugui, a Japanese dace fish found in freshwater rivers and streams across the country. Ohno Bakufu (1888-1976) produced the celebrated "Familiar Fishes of Nippon" series of fish prints that combined scientific observation with artistic beauty, rendering each species in meticulous detail against plain backgrounds. The ugui is a silver-scaled fish with reddish lateral stripes during spawning season, and Ohno's treatment gives the specimen a lifelike presence on the printed page. Fish prints occupy a distinctive niche in Japanese art, bridging natural history illustration and fine art in a way that reflects Japan's deep cultural relationship with its marine and freshwater fauna.
Bakufu Ohno Familiar Fishes Of Nippon Ugui was created by John Amoss.
Bakufu Ohno Familiar Fishes Of Nippon Ugui depicts fish, still life, and animals.
