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 print by Ishiwata Koitsu, one of several unidentified works that together with his documented compositions constitute his known catalog. The print reflects the refined atmospheric sensibility and technical command that Ishiwata developed through his engagement with the shin-hanga tradition, a tradition that positioned the print not merely as documentary record but as atmospheric and emotional experience — an invitation to inhabit the scene depicted as fully as if standing before it in the particular light of a specific hour.
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, seascapes, and animals.
