$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.
Ukifune — the character and chapter of The Tale of Genji named "Drifting Boat" — appears here as a standalone treatment of Chapter 51's pivotal figure, the young woman whose impossible position between two powerful loves leads her to attempt suicide in the Uji River. Maeda Masao's engagement with Ukifune outside the formal chapter sequence of his complete Genji series suggests particular artistic interest in this character, whose emotional situation — the passive victim of forces she cannot control — gave him material of unusual psychological depth within the framework of his literary illustration practice.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Ukifune was created by Maeda Masao (前田政雄).
Ukifune depicts figures, rivers & lakes, and bijin-ga.
