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 untitled print from Ishiwata Koitsu's production, rendered in the atmospheric woodblock technique of the shin-hanga movement. The absence of a recorded title should not obscure the care that went into this print's creation: the publisher's selection of the subject, the designer's compositional decisions, the carver's precise cutting, and the printer's controlled inking together produced an object of refined craft and atmospheric sensitivity, whatever the specific scene it depicts.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Untitled (ishiwata-koitsu) was created by Ishiwata Koitsu (石渡光逸).
Untitled (ishiwata-koitsu) depicts urban scenes, landscapes, and animals.
