Prints from celebrated series attract premium collector interest. 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.
A print from One Hundred New Views of Tokyo — the landmark sosaku-hanga series that Henmi co-organized with Hiratsuka Un'ichi and others — depicting rain at Yotsuya Mitsuke, the intersection at the edge of the old Edo moat system near Yotsuya station. Number 22 in the series captures this urban crossing in wet weather, the rain transforming the familiar modern streetscape into a landscape of reflections and diminished visibility, the city seen through a scrim of water.
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.
Yotsuya Mitsuke ukei (Rain at Yotsuya Mitsuke) / Shin Tokyo hyakkei (One Hundred New Views of Tokyo, No. 22) was created by Henmi Takashi (逸見享).
Yotsuya Mitsuke ukei (Rain at Yotsuya Mitsuke) / Shin Tokyo hyakkei (One Hundred New Views of Tokyo, No. 22) depicts landscapes and rain, set at Tokyo.
