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 woman (or women) viewing a Japanese garden from the interior of a house — sitting at the edge of the engawa veranda or looking out through a screen door — in Shuntei's characteristic mode of indoor-outdoor interplay. The Japanese garden, designed to be experienced from specific viewing points within the adjacent architecture, offered him a subject combining the aesthetic appreciation of nature with the social customs of domestic life. The viewer and the garden are in a relationship of cultivated contemplation that Shuntei's composition presents as both aesthetic and social.
![[Garden of] Taj Mahal, No. 1 (Taji Maharu no niwa, dai ichi) by Hiroshi Yoshida](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/230993a7-d4f0-c979-c267-127d48e1ef1c/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
Taji Maharu no niwa, dai ichi
1931
Color woodblock print; oban
January 1938
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
1938
Color woodblock print; oban
10/70, 1966
Woodblock print
Viewing a Japanese Garden (1) was created by Miyagawa Shuntei (宮川春汀) in Not set.
Viewing a Japanese Garden (1) depicts gardens.
