Sorrow
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
$300–$3,000. Common folk art prints: $300–$800. Key value factors: Mori's cheerful folk art prints are affordably priced. His stencil technique (kappazuri) is distinctive.
Sorrow presents a figure in the grip of grief — an unusual emotional subject for Mori, whose work was predominantly celebratory and theatrical in its register. The shift toward emotional interiority suggests either a biographical dimension or a deliberate expansion of his subject range into more psychologically complex territory. His stencil technique, with its bold color areas and decisive outlines, translated the subject's emotional content into graphic terms: the posture of grief, the downward cast of the figure's gaze, the weight of sorrow carried in the body's attitude.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Sorrow was created by Yoshitoshi Mori (森義利).
Sorrow depicts figures and bijin-ga.
