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.
An atmospheric shin-hanga composition by Ishiwata Koitsu, its subject unidentified in available records. The print reflects the movement's characteristic concern with mood, season, and atmospheric effect over literal topographic description, the specific place or scene being less important to the work's success than the quality of light, weather, and emotional atmosphere it achieves. Ishiwata's technical mastery of the gradated woodblock print allowed him to render these elusive atmospheric qualities with consistent effectiveness.
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) depicts landscapes, snow scenes, and animals.
