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 Myoko in Niigata prefecture — one of the one hundred famous mountains of Japan, a volcanic peak known for its heavy snowfall and the quality of its winter skiing as much as for its alpine beauty — is depicted at sunset, the sky behind the mountain turning red and orange while the mountain itself becomes a dark silhouette. Henmi's sunset mountain subjects explore the transformation of familiar forms by extreme light, the alpenglow effect making familiar terrain strange and luminous.
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.
Myokozan in Sunset was created by Henmi Takashi (逸見享).
Myokozan in Sunset depicts landscapes, snow scenes, and night scenes.
