Hope
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
Shotei produced a wide range of subjects throughout his career under publishers Watanabe and Daikokuya. Signed, sealed lifetime editions consistently outperform unsigned export-market copies.
A single word title — "Hope" — suggests Shotei stepped outside his usual descriptive practice to give a work a purely emotional designation. The subject matter may be a sunrise, a clearing sky after storm, a young plant pushing through snow, or a figure poised at the beginning of a journey — any of the visual metaphors for hope that Japanese and Western artistic traditions shared. The title choice reflects the internationalism of the [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) movement and Shotei's awareness of his Western audience.
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.
Hope was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
Hope was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Hope depicts landscapes and snow scenes.
