Early Afternoon — 昼さがり
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$300–$3,000. Common illustrations: $300–$800. Key value factors: Iwata's stylish modern women prints bridge illustration and fine art. Original prints command more than reproductions.
Early Afternoon, or Hirusagari in Japanese, specifies a slightly earlier moment than the companion print Afternoon, capturing the hours just past noon when shadows begin to lengthen but the day's warmth is still building. Iwata's [oban](/glossary/oban) woodblock likely renders this temporal precision through light quality and the posture of its subject. The Japanese title carries a sense of time slipping past, the afternoon already declining from its peak. This attention to incremental shifts in the day's rhythm reflects a sensitivity to seasonal and temporal nuance central to Japanese aesthetic tradition.
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.
Early Afternoon — 昼さがり was created by Sentaro Iwata (岩田専太郎).
Early Afternoon — 昼さがり depicts landscapes.
