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 landscape composition by Ishiwata Koitsu, its specific subject not documented in available records. The print belongs to the body of shin-hanga work produced during Japan's interwar years, when the New Prints movement was at the height of its artistic and commercial productivity. Ishiwata's contribution to this tradition was characterized by a particularly refined sense of atmospheric effect — the soft gradations of a misty morning, the reflected light of a snowy evening, the warm glow of lanterns in urban darkness.
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, night scenes, and animals.
