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.
This untitled Ishiwata Koitsu woodblock print may depict any of the subjects he returned to throughout his career: the atmospheric riverside views, the snowy temple and shrine scenes, the urban night compositions, or the quieter landscape studies of the Tokyo region's hills and waterways. Whatever its subject, the print demonstrates the atmospheric sensitivity and technical refinement that distinguished Ishiwata's work within the broader shin-hanga movement, his careful command of tonal gradation creating the effects of mist, snow, and night that his collectors most valued.
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 temples & shrines.
