$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.
Flowing Water — a subject of elementary poetic power in Japanese aesthetics. Moving water (nagare-mizu) is one of the fundamental subjects of classical Japanese art, carrying associations of time's passage, of the impermanence of all things, and of the elemental forces that shape the landscape. Whether depicted as a mountain stream, a garden waterfall, or an urban canal, flowing water presents the visual paradox of constant motion within a fixed image. Hanko's treatment likely renders this subject through the lens of his literary and painterly traditions.
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.
Flowing Water was created by Kajita Hanko (梶田半古).
Flowing Water depicts landscapes, rivers & lakes, and bijin-ga.
![Untitled [Two women] by Kajita Hanko](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/135758.jpg)
