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 undocumented prints in Inuzuka Taisui's catalog, this untitled woodblock work was produced during the artist's active years in the [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) movement. The [kacho-e](/glossary/kacho-e) genre that Taisui practiced underwent significant evolution between the Edo period and the early twentieth century. Where Edo-period flower prints by artists like Hiroshige tended toward bold, simplified forms with strong outlines and flat color, the shin-hanga revival emphasized naturalism, tonal subtlety, and the kind of atmospheric rendering that reflected the influence of Western art on modern Japanese aesthetics. Taisui's prints occupy this later, more naturalistic position within the genre's history, treating botanical subjects with an observational fidelity that earlier kacho-e artists did not typically pursue.
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.
