$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 "from" — a truncated catalog entry indicating this is a literary frontispiece (kuchi-e) from a specific publication whose identity is not fully recorded. Hanko produced dozens of such frontispieces for the major literary magazines of the Meiji era, including Bungei Kurabu and Shin Shosetsu, and these works represent his most commercially significant output during his lifetime. Each frontispiece was typically a full-color woodblock print depicting the heroine or a key scene from the serialized novel or story it introduced.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frontispiece of a novel, from was created by Kajita Hanko (梶田半古).
Frontispiece of a novel, from depicts figures and bijin-ga.
![Untitled [Two women] by Kajita Hanko](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/135758.jpg)
