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 shin-hanga landscape by Ishiwata Koitsu whose title and subject have not been documented in available records. The print reflects his consistent engagement with the evocative atmospheric possibilities of the woodblock medium, the collaborative production system of the New Prints movement enabling him to achieve the refined tonal gradations and color subtleties that made shin-hanga landscapes so successful with collectors seeking to possess a piece of Japan's atmospheric beauty in portable, reproducible form.
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, snow scenes, and animals.
