$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 Ujibashi — the wooden bridge crossing the Ujigawa River to the inner precincts of Ise Jingū, Japan's most sacred Shinto shrine — is rendered in Hiratsuka's 1942 woodblock as a threshold subject. The bridge's simple unpainted cypress timber, replaced every twenty years alongside the shrine buildings themselves, embodies the Shinto ideal of perpetual renewal through exact reproduction. Hiratsuka renders the approach to Amaterasu's sanctuary with reverence.
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.
Ujibashi Bridge to the Grand Shrine of Ise, Mie was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1942.
Ujibashi Bridge to the Grand Shrine of Ise, Mie depicts landscapes, temples & shrines, and bridges.
