Key value factors: Edition order (first Watanabe/Doi printing vs. posthumous reprints) is crucial. Snow scenes, night views, and bijin-ga typically command premiums. Publisher seals and artist signatures authenticate first editions.
A ninth untitled work from Asada Benji, completing a group of undocumented prints from his catalog. The sustained production of prints throughout his eighty-five-year life — born in 1899, active through much of the Showa period — means his catalog encompasses works that reflect Japan's dramatic twentieth-century transformation, from the late Meiji world of his birth through the postwar economic miracle. His untitled prints are the undocumented chapters of that long engagement with the visual landscape of Japan.
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.
Untitled (asada-benji) was created by Asada Benji (浅田弁治).
Untitled (asada-benji) depicts landscapes, figures, and abstract.
