$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.
A pagoda at "Tyoyo" in Manchuria is rendered in early spring, the bare branches around it just beginning to bud. Hiratsuka's 1948 woodblock documents a pagoda in what was then the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, part of his wartime documentation of Asian Buddhist architecture across the empire's boundaries. The spring setting suggests both renewal and the fragility of what was being recorded.
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 Tyoyo, in Early Spring, Manchuria was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1948.
Pagoda Tyoyo, in Early Spring, Manchuria depicts temples & shrines, spring, and pagodas.
