$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.
Bijin in reeds — a figure set within the tall grasses that grow along riverbanks, lakeshores, and tidal flats. Reed-beds (ashi no hara) in Japanese landscape have poetic associations with concealment, with the rustling sound of wind through the stems, and with the habitat of waterbirds like herons and egrets. A bijin partially hidden by or emerging from the reeds combines the figure study with landscape in a way that emphasizes the woman's affinity with the natural world, her presence in the reeds as natural as the birds that nest there.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Bijin in reeds was created by Kajita Hanko (梶田半古).
Bijin in reeds depicts bijin-ga.
![Untitled [Two women] by Kajita Hanko](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/135758.jpg)
