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 unidentified woodblock print from Ishiwata Koitsu's body of atmospheric shin-hanga work. The print's subject is not documented, but the print itself preserves the visual qualities that distinguished his approach to landscape and urban subjects: the careful tonal gradation that rendered atmospheric effects with subtlety, the compositional sensitivity that found in ordinary Japanese places the elements of quiet beauty that his collectors most valued, and the technical refinement achieved through the collaborative printmaking process.
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.
