View of Azuchi
- Date:
- 1931
- Medium:
- Color 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.
Azuchi on the eastern shore of Lake Biwa — site of Oda Nobunaga's Azuchi Castle, one of the defining monuments of the Azuchi-Momoyama period — is rendered here in Hiratsuka's 1931 color woodblock as a lakeside view. The castle itself was destroyed in 1582; what remains is a landscape charged with historical memory. Hiratsuka's color print captures the lake shore and surrounding hills with the warmth of his early landscape palette.
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.
View of Azuchi was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1931.
View of Azuchi depicts landscapes.
