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.
Among the untitled works in Inuzuka Taisui's catalog, this woodblock print contributes to the artist's record of sustained engagement with the [kacho-e](/glossary/kacho-e) genre throughout the [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) period. Japanese botanical printmaking drew on a visual tradition that extended well beyond the woodblock medium, encompassing painted screens, hanging scrolls, illustrated botanical texts, and the practice of ikebana (flower arrangement). Taisui's prints participate in this broader culture of close attention to plant forms, translating observed natural detail into the specific constraints and possibilities of the woodblock process. The compression of a three-dimensional subject into flat printed layers, each carried by its own carved block, gives woodblock botanical prints a distinctive visual character that Taisui's designs consistently exploit.
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.
