Sad Love — 哀しい恋

A lithograph rather than a woodblock print, "Sad Love" (哀しい恋) demonstrates Takasawa's fluency across printmaking mediums. The title introduces an explicit emotional register — longing, loss, or the ache of romantic feeling — that his bijin-ga woodblocks often implied without naming. In the lithograph medium, he would have had different tonal possibilities, and the work likely gains a more painterly atmosphere suited to its melancholy subject.