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.
A May scene rendered in Henmi's characteristically lyrical, poet's-eye approach to landscape — the month associated in Japan with the arrival of warm rains and the deepening of spring into early summer. Henmi's [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) prints were conceived and executed as personal artistic statements rather than commercial products, and even untitled seasonal subjects carry the quality of private notation, a printmaker-poet recording the particular atmosphere of a month.
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.
May was created by Henmi Takashi (逸見享).
May depicts landscapes and spring.
