Untitled (inuzuka-taisui)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- wbp
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 by Inuzuka Taisui, consistent with the artist's known catalog of botanical and nature subjects from the late 1920s and early 1930s. The shin-hanga production system that Taisui worked within was deliberately conservative in its methods, preserving Edo-period techniques that had been refined over centuries. Cherry wood blocks, water-based pigments, handmade [washi](/glossary/washi) paper, and the [baren](/glossary/baren) burnishing tool were the same materials and instruments used by printers working for Hokusai and Hiroshige a century earlier. What changed in the shin-hanga era was the artistic sensibility applied to these traditional methods: a greater interest in naturalistic light, atmospheric tone, and the kind of observed detail that reflected the influence of Western art and photography on modern Japanese visual culture.
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.
