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 unidentified landscape or urban atmospheric composition by Ishiwata Koitsu, executed in the refined shin-hanga manner that distinguished his work. The print's subject — whether a bridge by night, a temple in snow, a coastal fishing scene, or a quiet suburban landscape — cannot be determined from available records, but its atmospheric qualities place it firmly within the body of work that established Ishiwata as one of the significant if less widely recognized voices in the shin-hanga movement.
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, rivers & lakes, and animals.
