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 atmospheric print from Ishiwata Koitsu's shin-hanga production. The print's subject is unrecorded, but its creation within the careful collaborative woodblock system of the New Prints movement ensures a level of technical refinement — in the precision of carving, the control of color gradation, and the quality of printing — that gives the work enduring visual interest whatever the scene it depicts. Ishiwata's atmospheric sensibility is preserved in this print's tonal relationships and compositional approach.
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.
