Snow and night scenes traditionally command higher prices. 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.
SHIROI TSUKI — White Moon — a moon subject that emphasizes the lunar disc's whiteness, the particular quality of moonlight that drains color from the world and renders everything in tones of silver, grey, and black. Kimura's White Moon composition likely centers the disc against a dark ground, the contrast between the luminous circle and the surrounding darkness creating the essential drama of the moonlit night. The Japanese title gives the composition both its specific visual subject and its poetic dimension.
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
1919
Color woodblock print
January 1938
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
SHIROI TSUKI (white moon) was created by Kimura Yoshiharu (木村吉晴).
SHIROI TSUKI (white moon) depicts moonlight and night scenes.
