Warehouses on a Promontory
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- mfa
Typical Price
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.
- Common examples: $100–$500
- Good impressions: $500–$2,000
- Premium/scarce: $2,000–$10,000
Description
Industrial warehouses on a promontory overlooking water — a subject drawn from the commercial waterfront districts of Tokyo or another Japanese port city, where the built landscape of trade and storage occupies the most prominent terrain. Henmi's interest in the working landscape of urban Japan extended to subjects that other printmakers might have found insufficiently scenic, finding in the practical architecture of warehouses and wharves a graphic subject as valid as any mountain view.
More Prints by Henmi Takashi
More Urban Scenes Prints
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Woodblock print
View of Kabuki Theater from Matsuya (Ginza Matsuya yori Kabukiza), no. 3 from the series "Pictures of Ginza, First Series (Gashu Ginza dai isshu)"
1928
Color lithograph
Distant View of Mitsukoshi Movie Theater in Shinjuku from the Sixth Floor of Hoteiya (Hoteiya rokkai kara Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Musashi no kan enbo zu), no. 1 from the series "Scenery of Shinjuku (Gashu Shinjuku fukei)"
1930
Color lithograph
Spring Dusk at the Tōshō Shrine in Ueno
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Warehouses on a Promontory was created by Henmi Takashi (逸見享).
Warehouses on a Promontory depicts urban scenes, seascapes, and architecture.