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 work from Ishiwata Koitsu's oeuvre reflects the atmospheric and compositional sensibilities he developed over a career devoted to landscape and urban subjects in the shin-hanga manner. Ishiwata's prints were collected by a significant number of Western buyers during the interwar period, when shin-hanga landscapes were actively marketed to foreign collectors through print dealers in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Yokohama, and the atmospheric quality of his work translated well 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, seascapes, and animals.
