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 from Ishiwata Koitsu's woodblock print production. The print's specific subject is unknown, but it belongs to the body of work in which he explored the atmospheric possibilities of Japanese landscape and urban subjects through the collaborative shin-hanga printmaking system, achieving through careful gradated printing the subtle tonal effects — soft mist, reflected light, the blue darkness of a snow-covered night — that his most celebrated compositions exemplify.
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.
