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.
This second untitled woodblock print by Miyamoto Shufu represents another work whose original title has been lost to time or circumstance. The print's visual content likely reflects Shufu's sustained engagement with atmospheric landscape, a subject broad enough to encompass the full range of weather, light, and seasonal conditions that define the Japanese countryside. Shufu's untitled works, freed from the specificity of named subjects, may actually provide a clearer window into his purely formal concerns, the play of tone against tone, the balance of empty and filled space, the transition from sharp focus to soft obscurity. The [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) printing technique, with its capacity for extraordinarily fine tonal control, gives even an unnamed landscape a material richness that holds the eye. The composition speaks through its surfaces rather than its subject matter.
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.
Untitled (shufu-miyamoto) was created by Miyamoto Shufu (宮本秋風).
Untitled (shufu-miyamoto) depicts landscapes and abstract.
