Landscape
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Art of Japan
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 landscape composition in which Tanaka Kiyokichi engages with one of Japanese printmaking's most enduring subjects. Rather than reproducing a famous named view in the manner of Edo-period meisho prints, Tanaka presents landscape as a more personal, unspecified encounter with natural terrain. The sosaku hanga ethos of individual artistic expression freed printmakers like Tanaka from the obligation to depict recognizable landmarks, allowing them instead to respond to landscape as a felt experience—the quality of light on a hillside, the weight of clouds above a valley, the texture of earth and vegetation rendered through carved wood grain.
