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.
One of Ishiwata Koitsu's untitled atmospheric prints in the shin-hanga manner, its specific subject unknown. The print participates in the aesthetic tradition of the New Prints movement, where the emotional and sensory qualities of depicted scenes were valued as highly as their topographic accuracy, and where the technical refinement of the collaborative woodblock process was directed toward capturing the atmospheric dimensions of Japanese landscape that made these works so broadly appealing across cultural boundaries.
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.
