$500–$8,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: His enormous output (lived to 102) means most works are accessible. Early black-and-white prints are most valued.
The Kinugawa hot spring resort in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, is here rendered under moonlight — the thermal town's illuminated buildings reflected in the river below. Hiratsuka's 1940 woodblock combines the moonlight subject with a nude figure in the foreground, perhaps bathing in the outdoor thermal waters. The combination of landscape, moonlight, and the nude body is unusual in his oeuvre.
Mutsu Tsuta onsen
1919
Color woodblock print; oban
1943
Color woodblock print
Autumn 1920
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
1924
Color woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Moonlight Over Kinugawa Hot Springs (Kinugawa Onsen) was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1940.
Moonlight Over Kinugawa Hot Springs (Kinugawa Onsen) depicts nude, moonlight, and night scenes.
