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.
An untitled [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) woodblock from Henmi's practice — the image representing the private, exploratory dimension of his output that ran alongside the more public, exhibited work. Henmi was a poet as well as a printmaker, and his images were often conceived in the same lyric spirit as his verse: as concentrated responses to specific experiences of place, weather, season, and time of day.
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.
Untitled (takashi-henmi) was created by Henmi Takashi (逸見享).
Untitled (takashi-henmi) depicts landscapes, figures, and abstract.
