$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.
The Soyangsa Temple in the Inner Diamond Mountains of Korea — the Nae Keum Kang, among the most sacred mountain landscapes in Korean Buddhist tradition — is rendered in Hiratsuka's direct woodblock style. The 1940 print captures the temple complex embedded in the mountain's dramatic terrain, the sacred buildings clinging to cliffs of a landscape already celebrated before Hiratsuka documented it. The Diamond Mountains were later divided by the Korean War.
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.
Soyangsa Temple in Inner Diamond Mountain (Nae Keum Kang), Korea was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1940.
Soyangsa Temple in Inner Diamond Mountain (Nae Keum Kang), Korea depicts landscapes, temples & shrines, and mountains.
