Youth
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$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 young woman embodies the concept of youth itself in this [oban](/glossary/oban) woodblock print, her figure radiating the vitality and openness of early adulthood. Ishikawa Toraji treats youth not merely as a physical attribute but as a state of being, visible in the figure's posture, expression, and the energy that animates her form. The composition distills the quality of being young into a single image, stripped of narrative context or seasonal metaphor. Among Toraji's [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) prints, this direct engagement with the theme of youth stands as one of his most concentrated explorations of age and beauty as intertwined subjects.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Youth was created by Ishikawa Toraji (石川寅治).
Youth was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Youth depicts figures and bijin-ga.
