Festival — お祭り
- Date:
- 1898
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Typical Price
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.
- Common examples: $100–$500
- Good impressions: $500–$2,000
- Premium/scarce: $2,000–$10,000
Description
"Festival" (お祭り, omatsuri, 1898) depicts the summer matsuri — one of the central communal rituals of Japanese social life, combining Shinto religious practice with commercial festivity, music, and the specific visual spectacle of festival decoration, procession, and crowd. Shuntei renders the festival scene with attention to its specific visual character: the decorated streets and shrine gates, the portable shrine or festival parade, the gathered community in festival dress. The omatsuri was one of the year's most visually rich occasions and a natural subject for a printmaker interested in social life.
