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 atmospheric composition by Ishiwata Koitsu, produced within the collaborative shin-hanga printmaking tradition. The print demonstrates the movement's characteristic synthesis of Japanese compositional sensibility with Western-influenced atmospheric naturalism, a synthesis that gave shin-hanga prints their distinctive visual character and broad international appeal. Ishiwata's contribution to this synthesis was his particular sensitivity to transitional atmospheric conditions — evening, night, snow, rain — that he rendered with consistent emotional resonance.
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.
