$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 "in" (probably a truncated catalog entry for a frontispiece from a specific publication) represents one of the many literary illustration commissions that filled Hanko's career. The incomplete title suggests catalog data drawn from a secondary source where the full publication details were not recorded. Hanko produced frontispieces for many of the major literary publications of the Meiji era, and his reputation was built substantially on this work, which brought his elegant figure style to the broadest possible reading public.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
A frontispiece of a novel in was created by Kajita Hanko (梶田半古).
A frontispiece of a novel in depicts figures and bijin-ga.
![Untitled [Two women] by Kajita Hanko](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/135758.jpg)
