Pagoda
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
$500–$8,000. Common later works: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: His enormous output (lived to 102) means most works are accessible. Early black-and-white prints are most valued.
An undated pagoda print — the multi-tiered tower rendered in Hiratsuka's direct woodblock manner without locating information. The pagoda form was central to his printmaking for decades, its repeated tiers and curved eaves providing structural repetition that suited his bold, rhythmic carving. This undated example may be a compositional distillation of multiple pagoda subjects worked out over a career.
伏見稲荷
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Uji Byodoin no ichibu
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Pagoda was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一).
Pagoda depicts temples & shrines and pagodas.
