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 shin-hanga print by Ishiwata Koitsu whose subject has not been preserved in documentation. The print reflects his sustained engagement with the evocative possibilities of the woodblock medium, the collaborative production system of the New Prints movement allowing him to achieve levels of tonal refinement — particularly in the gradated skies and reflected water surfaces that appear so frequently in his documented work — that would have been difficult to achieve through solo printmaking.
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.
