Sad Love — 哀しい恋
- Date:
- Not set
- Medium:
- Lithograph
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Typical Price
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.
- Common examples: $100–$500
- Good impressions: $500–$2,000
- Premium/scarce: $2,000–$10,000
Description
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.
