Happy February! Please note that we will be traveling for business until March 4th. You may make inquiries and purchase, but shipping will be completed upon our return. Thanks for visiting! JWP Gallery offers combined shipping whenever possible. We will issue a partial shipping refund as appropriate on multiple purchases, thank you!
Sosaku Hanga
Specializing in Japanese woodblock prints for sale, we also have contemporary Japanese woodblock prints for sale as well. Sōsaku-hanga or "creative prints" was an art movement in early 20th-century Japan. It stressed the artist as the sole creator motivated by a desire for self-expression, and advocated principles of art that is "self-drawn", "self-carved" and "self-printed". As opposed to the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement that maintained the traditional ukiyo-e collaborative system where the artist, carver, printer, and publisher engaged in division of labor, creative print artists distinguished themselves as artists creating art for art’s sake.