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.
A dog show in the Showa-era Japanese style — with exhibited animals, handlers, and spectators gathered in formal assessment of breeding standards — is one of Ishiwata Koitsu's genre subjects that captures the Western-influenced leisure culture of interwar Japan. The dog show was a distinctly modern form of entertainment imported from Europe and America, and its appearance in a shin-hanga print reflects the movement's interest in documenting the full range of contemporary Japanese life, from ancient shrines to fashionable modern pastimes.
Hebizukai
1932
Color woodblock print; oban
1935
Color woodblock print; oban
1964
Acrylic paint and oil pastel with oiled charcoal and ink over an ink and graphite underdrawing on paper
1964
Color lithograph with relief block and hand coloring; edition 35/36
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Dog Show was created by Ishiwata Koitsu (石渡光逸).
Dog Show depicts animals.
