by Kogan Tobari
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.
Inn at Odawara, a Taisho-era woodblock, depicts accommodation in the castle town that served as the last major stop on the Tokaido road before the Hakone mountains. Odawara's inns hosted generations of travelers, and their architecture reflected both function and regional building traditions. Tobari renders the inn's structure with the [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) artist's direct engagement, carving and printing the building himself rather than delegating to craftsmen. The result captures not just the inn's physical form but the printmaker's own response to its proportions and textures, each knife cut recording a decision about what to include, emphasize, or simplify.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Inn at Odawara was created by Kogan Tobari (戸張孤雁) in Japanese, Taishô era, 20th century.
Inn at Odawara depicts architecture.
