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.
Mount Ontake in the Kiso district of Nagano prefecture — a sacred volcanic mountain that has been a site of Shinto and Buddhist religious practice for centuries — is depicted rising above the Kiso valley landscape. Ontake is one of Japan's holiest mountains, its volcanic summit ringed with shrines and the subject of pilgrimage traditions extending back into the Edo period. Henmi renders the mountain in his characteristic woodblock style, the sacred peak given the same graphic attention he brought to secular landscapes.
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.
Mt Ontake, Kiso — 木曽御嶽 was created by Henmi Takashi (逸見享).
Mt Ontake, Kiso — 木曽御嶽 depicts landscapes, temples & shrines, and mountains.
