Untitled (inuzuka-taisui)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
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.
Part of the large group of untitled woodblock prints attributed to Inuzuka Taisui, this work extends the artist's documented engagement with the [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) [kacho-e](/glossary/kacho-e) tradition. The seal or signature on Taisui's prints, typically reading "Taisui" in Japanese characters, served as the primary means of attribution for works that circulated without recorded titles. Seal identification has been essential for reconstructing the catalogs of lesser-known shin-hanga artists whose prints entered collections without full publication documentation. Taisui's seal appears consistently across his known works, confirming a unified body of production despite the gaps in titling and dating that characterize much of his surviving output.
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.
