Toy Camel (Gangu no rakuda)
- Date:
- 1967
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$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 toy camel — gangu no rakuda — a folk art object rendered in Hiratsuka's direct woodblock manner. The camel, exotic in Japan, arrived as a toy through trade connections with Central Asia and the Middle East. Hiratsuka's 1967 woodblock treats the folk toy with the same formal seriousness he brought to Tang dynasty ceramics and bronze bells — the handmade object as bearer of cultural distance.
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Toy Camel (Gangu no rakuda) was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1967.
Toy Camel (Gangu no rakuda) depicts animals.
