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.
"A Visitor" (客人, kyakujin) depicts the social occasion of receiving a guest — one of the fundamental rituals of Japanese domestic life, governed by complex codes of hospitality, appropriate dress, the preparation of tea and refreshments, and the specific spatial choreography of welcome. Shuntei renders the visitor's arrival or reception with attention to the social dynamics of host and guest: the differential postures and expressions that communicated the relationship between visitor and receiving household, the physical arrangement of the reception space.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
A Visitor — 客人 was created by Miyagawa Shuntei (宮川春汀) in Not set.
A Visitor — 客人 depicts figures, bijin-ga, and daily life.
