$500–$4,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Maekawa's early sosaku-hanga works are historically significant. Bold, expressive prints are most valued.
The hot spring at Noboribetsu in Hokkaido — Japan's northernmost major island, where the Noboribetsu Onsen complex sits at the edge of the volcanic "Hell Valley" with its boiling pools and sulphur vents — is Senpan's subject in this undated nude composition. The onsen setting provides the natural context for the female nudity that was Senpan's most characteristic figure subject, the communal bath a space where nudity was entirely normative and where the quality of physical ease and social relaxation that he found most compositionally compelling was genuinely present.
Mutsu Tsuta onsen
1919
Color woodblock print; oban
1943
Color woodblock print
Autumn 1920
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
1924
Color woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Hot Spring at Noboribetsu in Hokkaido was created by Maekawa Senpan (前川千帆).
Hot Spring at Noboribetsu in Hokkaido depicts nude.
