Lament — 愁
- Date:
- 1980
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
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.
Dated 1980, "Lament" (愁) belongs to Takasawa's later career and introduces an explicitly mournful emotional register. The character 愁 carries connotations of grief, melancholy, and autumnal longing — a feeling akin to mono no aware, the bittersweet awareness of transience that runs through Japanese aesthetics. A female figure in this state of feeling would have been depicted with characteristic restraint: grief made visible in the quality of stillness rather than in overt expression.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Lament — 愁 was created by Takasawa Keiichi (高沢圭一) in 1980.
Lament — 愁 depicts figures, bijin-ga, and autumn foliage.
