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.
Reinanzaka — a slope in the Minato ward of Tokyo, near the Akasaka district — was a street of embassies and upscale residences in the Taisho and early Showa periods, its gentle hill and tree-lined character offering a visual experience very different from the flat working-class districts of downtown Tokyo. Henmi's rendering of this genteel slope demonstrates the range of his Tokyo documentary project, capturing the bourgeois and diplomatic districts as attentively as the harbors and markets.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Reinanzaka was created by Henmi Takashi (逸見享).
Reinanzaka depicts urban scenes, landscapes, and trees.
