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.
This untitled entry in Inuzuka Taisui's body of work extends the artist's sustained exploration of the [kacho-e](/glossary/kacho-e) genre during the [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) era. The late 1920s saw significant demand for botanical woodblock prints among collectors in both Japan and the West, driven partly by the shin-hanga movement's successful marketing in American and European markets. Publishers like Watanabe Shozaburo and others commissioned artists to produce floral subjects that could appeal to this international audience while remaining grounded in Japanese aesthetic traditions. Taisui's contribution to this market, though less widely known than that of Ohara Koson or Nishimura Hodo, represents a genuine artistic engagement with plant forms rendered in the traditional woodblock medium of carved blocks and water-based pigments on [washi](/glossary/washi) paper.
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.
