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.
One of Ishiwata Koitsu's untitled woodblock prints, produced during his active years as a shin-hanga artist in the 1930s. The print reflects the aesthetic priorities of the movement: the preference for moody atmospheric effects over literal documentation, the emphasis on transitional lighting conditions that transformed ordinary landscapes into scenes of quiet beauty, and the technical refinement achievable through the collaborative print production process. These values are present in this print whatever its specific unrecorded subject.
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.
