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.
Southwest Star — Nansei no Hoshi — a celestial composition placing a star in the southwestern quadrant of the sky, the diagonal direction combining the associations of south (warmth, summer) and west (evening, the setting sun). Kimura's directional star subjects locate the celestial body within a spatial and temporal framework, the star's position in the sky determining both the quality of light and the atmospheric conditions that surround it. The southwest star suggests an evening composition, the night advancing from the west.
Woodblock print
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
![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
Southwest Star - Nansei no Hoshi was created by Kimura Yoshiharu (木村吉晴).
Southwest Star - Nansei no Hoshi depicts night scenes and abstract.
