Prayer Offering
by Maeda Masao
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
by Maeda Masao
$500–$4,000. Common landscapes: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Maeda Masao's atmospheric mountain and landscape prints have a dedicated following among sosaku-hanga collectors.
Prayer Offering — an image of ritual religious offering in a Japanese Buddhist or Shinto context, likely connected to the Tale of Genji chapter of the same name or depicting a more general scene of devotion — is rendered in Maeda Masao's direct graphic manner. The act of offering — incense, flowers, food, or the formal arrangement of ritual objects — was a constant presence in the lives of the aristocratic characters of the Genji, and Maeda's treatment of this subject brings his characteristic bold line to the formal world of Heian religious practice.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Prayer Offering was created by Maeda Masao (前田政雄).
Prayer Offering depicts figures and religious.
