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 composition by Ishiwata Koitsu in the shin-hanga manner, its specific subject not preserved in available records. The print participates in the broader project of the New Prints movement to document and interpret the atmospheric character of Japanese landscape — the soft light of overcast winter days, the dramatic quality of storm light over water, the warm intimacy of lamp-lit streets — through the collaborative woodblock printing system that the movement had adapted from the Edo-period ukiyo-e tradition.
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.
