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 print by Ishiwata Koitsu in the shin-hanga manner, its subject and title unrecorded in available documentation. The print participates in the tradition of Japanese landscape printmaking as refashioned by the New Prints movement, combining the compositional conventions of Edo-period meisho-e with the atmospheric naturalism that shin-hanga artists absorbed from Western painting, producing works that were simultaneously modern and deeply rooted in Japanese visual culture.
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.
