$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.
A mountain road winds through a landscape in this early twentieth-century Senpan print, the path as subject allowing him to explore the experience of moving through terrain rather than the static observation of a fixed viewpoint. Mountain roads in Senpan's work carry the feeling of actual travel — the slight uncertainty of the path ahead, the way the landscape reveals itself incrementally as the walker rounds each bend — and they connect the formal landscape print to the bodily experience of moving through Japan's varied topography.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Mountain Road was created by Maekawa Senpan (前川千帆) in 20th century.
Mountain Road depicts landscapes, travel scenes, and mountains.
