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 woodblock composition by Ishiwata Koitsu whose specific subject is unrecorded. Ishiwata was closely associated with the Yokohama and Kanagawa coastal areas, which appear frequently in his documented work alongside urban Tokyo subjects and more distant landscape views. This untitled print preserves the atmospheric sensibility of a painter-printmaker whose work was shaped by his close observation of the particular qualities of light and weather in the landscapes he inhabited and visited.
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, night scenes, and animals.
