$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Hanko's refined nihonga-style prints bridge traditional painting and modern printmaking. His early death at 47 limits available works.
A frontispiece for a novel published in 1904 — three years after the 1901 frontispiece, showing Hanko's sustained engagement with literary illustration across the Meiji period. By 1904, the kuchi-e art form had reached its peak in terms of both technical refinement and cultural prestige, with the leading illustrators of the day — Hanko, Toshikata, and others — producing works of extraordinary delicacy for the literary magazines. The 1904 print likely depicts a female figure in the shaded, psychologically complex mode that characterized Hanko's mature bijin-ga style.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
A frontispiece of a novel, 1904 was created by Kajita Hanko (梶田半古).
A frontispiece of a novel, 1904 depicts figures, bijin-ga, and portraits.
![Untitled [Two women] by Kajita Hanko](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/135758.jpg)
