Complete set of 12 smaller prints

A portfolio assembling twelve small-format mokuhanga as a coherent group. Sosaku-hanga artists typically self-published in limited editions, with the printmaker personally carving each block and pulling each impression on washi using a baren. The small format allowed Hiratsuka to explore variations on motifs — landscape, architecture, still life — without committing to oban or chuban scale, and to offer collectors a sequenced body of related work at modest cost. Complete sets are valued because they preserve the intended order, since individual sheets often disperse onto the secondary market over time. Within Hiratsuka's lifetime output of more than 3,000 prints, portfolio groupings demonstrate the editorial dimension of sosaku-hanga, in which the artist functioned not only as designer and craftsman but as publisher of his own work.