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 second untitled work by Ikeda Zuigetsu, this woodblock print continues the artist's practice of rendering natural subjects, likely flowers, with the observational rigor that the kacho-ga tradition demands. The existence of multiple untitled works in Zuigetsu's catalog may reflect how the prints were documented rather than the artist's original intention; many Japanese prints were given titles by publishers or collectors after the fact. Regardless of its naming history, the print carries the visual qualities that distinguish Zuigetsu's work: botanical accuracy achieved through careful carving, a color palette drawn from natural observation, and the particular texture that arises when water-based inks are pressed into the fibers of [washi](/glossary/washi) paper. Each impression from Zuigetsu's blocks is a unique meeting of ink and paper.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Untitled (ikeda-zuigetsu) was created by Ikeda Zuigetsu (池田瑞月).
Untitled (ikeda-zuigetsu) depicts birds & flowers, still life, and abstract.
