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.
Washing Hair is a woodblock print depicting the daily act of cleaning and rinsing long hair, a subject that combines the intimacy of personal grooming with the visual drama of flowing wet hair. In Japanese art, hair-washing scenes often emphasize the cascade of loosened black hair, which in its unbound state transforms the figure into something between the ordinary and the otherworldly. Nakao Yoshitaka renders this private moment through woodblock carving, the knife following the long curves of falling hair with strokes that echo the subject's own downward flow. The domestic simplicity of the act contrasts with the visual richness of the resulting composition.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Washing Hair was created by Nakao Yoshitaka (中尾義隆).
Washing Hair depicts daily life.
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