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 woodblock print by Inuzuka Taisui, this work belongs to the artist's catalog of [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) [kacho-e](/glossary/kacho-e) subjects produced during the late 1920s and early 1930s. While the specific subject has not been recorded in available databases, Taisui's body of work consisted almost entirely of flower-and-bird prints rendered with careful botanical detail. The absence of a title is common among prints by lesser-documented shin-hanga artists whose works entered collections without full publication records. Taisui's prints typically feature a single plant or flower species rendered against a neutral or lightly tinted background, with the composition tightly focused on the subject's natural form. The woodblock technique he employed followed shin-hanga conventions: the artist provided the design, while professional carvers and printers executed the blocks and pulled the finished impressions.
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, still life, and abstract.
