Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
Tsukiji Fish Market — one of Tokyo's great institutions, the wholesale fish market that supplied the city's restaurants and households from the Meiji period until its 2018 relocation to Toyosu — appears in this print from an unidentified series. The market at its working hours presented a spectacle of organized activity: the auction floors, the ice-packed stalls of fresh fish, the vendors and buyers in constant negotiation, all within the distinctive atmosphere of cold, salt-scented air. Kazuma renders this working waterfront institution with the attentiveness he brought to all his urban subjects.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Tsukiji fish market, from was created by Oda Kazuma (織田一磨).
Tsukiji fish market, from depicts urban scenes, fish, and market scenes.
