$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 woman in Western dress reclines in a hammock, reading a letter — a composition that updates the classical epistolary bijin subject with the markers of Meiji-era Westernization. The hammock is itself a Western import (introduced to Japan through maritime contact), and the woman's Western clothing, hairstyle, and setting mark this as a depiction of Japan's new Westernized middle class. Yet the letter connects her to the long bijin-ga tradition of female figures in correspondence, suggesting continuity within modernization.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Western Woman in Hammock, Reading a Letter was created by Kajita Hanko (梶田半古).
Western Woman in Hammock, Reading a Letter depicts bijin-ga.
![Untitled [Two women] by Kajita Hanko](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/135758.jpg)
