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.
Number 53 in what appears to be a numbered series of Tokyo views, this woodblock print depicts Hamacho Park, a green space in the Nihonbashi district of central Tokyo. The park sits on land that once belonged to a feudal lord's estate and later served as a public garden after the Meiji Restoration. Fukazawa captures the park as a pocket of natural calm within the surrounding urban fabric, a theme that runs through much Showa-era Tokyo printmaking. The woodblock medium gives the foliage and pathways a handcrafted quality that photographs of the same era cannot match, translating lived experience of the park into a visual register that is both documentary and personal.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
#53 Hamacho Park was created by Sakuichi Fukazawa (深沢索一).
#53 Hamacho Park depicts urban scenes, gardens, and trees.
