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 by Ishiwata Koitsu whose specific subject is unrecorded. The work belongs to the atmospheric tradition of the shin-hanga movement, in which printmakers sought to capture the transient atmospheric conditions — the hour before dawn, the quality of snow-light, the mood of an evening harbor — that transformed ordinary Japanese landscapes into scenes of heightened beauty. Ishiwata's technical command of the gradated woodblock print made him one of the more capable practitioners of these atmospheric effects within the movement.
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.
