Untitled (inuzuka-taisui)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Ohmi Gallery
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.
An untitled [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) woodblock print attributed to Inuzuka Taisui, this work adds to the artist's catalog of [kacho-e](/glossary/kacho-e) subjects. The shin-hanga movement's kacho-e output represented a conscious effort to modernize a genre that had deep historical precedent in Japanese art. By the early twentieth century, flower-and-bird painting had been practiced in Japan for over a millennium, absorbing influences from Chinese academic painting, Rimpa decorative traditions, and the naturalist observation promoted by Maruyama Okyo's school. Shin-hanga artists like Taisui inherited all of these traditions but filtered them through the specific requirements of the woodblock print medium, which imposed its own constraints on line quality, color mixing, and tonal range.
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.
