$500–$4,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Ishikawa's prints are relatively uncommon in the market. When available, good examples find ready buyers.
A woman is shown in the first hours of the day, captured in the liminal state between sleep and full wakefulness. Ishikawa Toraji uses the [oban](/glossary/oban) woodblock format to render the soft, diffused quality of morning light falling across the figure and her surroundings. The composition is deliberately quiet, with muted colors and gentle lines that mirror the stillness of early hours. In the [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) tradition, morning scenes offered artists a way to depict women in unguarded, natural states, and Toraji embraces this intimacy, presenting his subject before she has assembled the public face she will carry through the day.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Morning was created by Ishikawa Toraji (石川寅治).
Morning was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Morning depicts figures, bijin-ga, and interiors.
