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.
This untitled work by Inuzuka Taisui is a woodblock print consistent with the artist's known output of [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) botanical and nature subjects. The physical dimensions of Taisui's prints, while not recorded for this specific work, typically followed standard shin-hanga formats. The [oban](/glossary/oban) size (approximately 39 by 26 centimeters) was the most common format for botanical prints, providing enough space to render a flower or branch at close to life size while fitting standard matting and framing proportions. Some [kacho-e](/glossary/kacho-e) artists also worked in the narrower [tanzaku](/glossary/tanzaku) format, which echoed the proportions of the poetry cards used in traditional Japanese calligraphy. The format Taisui chose for a given subject would have influenced the composition's vertical or horizontal emphasis.
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.
