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.
Titled simply Landscape, this woodblock print by Fukazawa presents a natural scene without specifying a particular location. The generic title may reflect how the work was cataloged rather than the artist's original intention, or it may indicate that Fukazawa conceived the image as a study of landscape elements, terrain, sky, vegetation, rather than a portrait of a named place. Fukazawa was active during the Showa period, when woodblock artists divided roughly between those who documented specific Tokyo landmarks and those who pursued more generalized nature subjects. This print appears to fall into the latter category, using the woodblock medium to explore relationships of form and color found in the Japanese countryside.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Landscape was created by Sakuichi Fukazawa (深沢索一).
Landscape depicts landscapes.
