Untitled (inuzuka-taisui)

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 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.