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.
One of Ishiwata Koitsu's untitled atmospheric compositions, produced within the collaborative woodblock printmaking system that characterized the shin-hanga movement. Ishiwata was particularly skilled at the gradated bokashi printing technique that allowed shin-hanga artists to achieve the misty atmospheric effects — the soft transitions from dark to light in the sky, the subtle reflections in still water — that distinguished the movement's most celebrated works. This print preserves those technical achievements whatever its unrecorded subject.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Untitled (ishiwata-koitsu) was created by Ishiwata Koitsu (石渡光逸).
Untitled (ishiwata-koitsu) uses Bokashi, on woodblock print.
Untitled (ishiwata-koitsu) depicts landscapes and animals.
