Untitled (inuzuka-taisui)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
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.
An untitled work from Inuzuka Taisui's [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) production, this woodblock print represents the artist's contribution to the [kacho-e](/glossary/kacho-e) genre during its twentieth-century revival. The shin-hanga movement, initiated by publisher Watanabe Shozaburo around 1915, sought to revitalize traditional woodblock printmaking by combining modern artistic sensibility with the technical craftsmanship of Edo-period production methods. Within this framework, kacho-e artists like Taisui created designs that honored the genre's centuries-old conventions while incorporating the more naturalistic observation that distinguished shin-hanga from its [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e) predecessors. The specific botanical or avian subject of this print has not been recorded in the available documentation.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Untitled (inuzuka-taisui) was created by Inuzuka Taisui (犬塚泰水).
Untitled (inuzuka-taisui) depicts birds & flowers and abstract.
