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 in the shin-hanga tradition, its subject unknown but its aesthetic qualities characteristically atmospheric. Ishiwata worked within the collaborative woodblock system in which publishers, carvers, and printers all contributed to the production of each print, and this untitled work preserves the accumulated craft knowledge of that system — the precise carving, the controlled gradated printing, and the careful selection of subject — that made shin-hanga one of the most technically refined forms of printmaking in twentieth-century Japan.
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.
