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 woodblock print by Ishiwata Koitsu in his atmospheric shin-hanga manner. The absence of a recorded title places this print among the many works whose specific subjects were not documented by the publishers who commissioned them or the collectors who acquired them, but whose visual qualities nonetheless testify to the creative effort and technical mastery that went into their production. Ishiwata's atmospheric sensibility is present in whatever scene the print depicts.
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.
