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 print from Ishiwata Koitsu's shin-hanga production, reflecting his atmospheric approach to Japanese landscape and urban subjects. The print's specific subject is unknown, but its creation through the collaborative woodblock system — with its careful carving and controlled printing — ensures the kind of technical consistency that gave shin-hanga works their characteristic aesthetic quality. Ishiwata's atmospheric sensibility, whatever the scene, was consistent enough to be recognized across the full range of his production.
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.
