Stone Bodhisattva at Datong
- 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.
A stone bodhisattva at Datong — one of the carved figures from the Yungang Grottoes cave temple complex in northern China — is rendered in Hiratsuka's direct woodblock style. The Yungang carvings, executed under the Northern Wei dynasty in the 5th and 6th centuries, represent some of the earliest Buddhist monumental sculpture in China. Hiratsuka's undated print focuses on a single figure, treating the carved stone with the same formal attention as a cast bronze.
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.
Stone Bodhisattva at Datong was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一).
Stone Bodhisattva at Datong depicts temples & shrines and religious.
