$300–$2,000. Common prints: $300–$800. Key value factors: Sano's landscape prints are modestly priced and accessible to collectors.
The Miharu Takizakura, or Three Spring Months Waterfall Cherry, is one of Japan's most famous individual trees, a weeping cherry in Fukushima Prefecture estimated to be over a thousand years old. Sano's 1990 [oban](/glossary/oban) woodblock print presents the tree at peak bloom, its cascading branches laden with pale blossoms that tumble downward in a form that gives the tree its waterfall name. The composition is dominated by the tree's massive canopy, which spills across the print like falling water, while the trunk anchors the image with a dark vertical line. Surrounding spring foliage provides a green and pink context, but the Takizakura commands the space utterly. The Japanese title (三春瀧櫻) compresses place, season, metaphor, and species into four characters.
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.
Three Spring Months- Waterfall Sakura — 三春瀧櫻 was created by Sano Seiji (佐野精二) in 1990.
Three Spring Months- Waterfall Sakura — 三春瀧櫻 depicts landscapes, cherry blossoms, and waterfalls.
