by Ito Takashi
$500–$5,000. Common landscapes: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Ito Takashi's prints published by Doi Hangaten are the most sought after. Night scenes and snow views command premiums.
This oban woodblock print presents a landscape scene rendered in Ito Takashi's mature style, with careful attention to topographic specificity and seasonal light. The woodblock medium's capacity for layered color printing allows Ito to build subtle tonal gradations across the composition, distinguishing between near and distant elements through shifts in saturation and value rather than through linear perspective alone. The print reflects the shin-hanga tradition's emphasis on named locations captured under particular atmospheric conditions, treating the Japanese landscape as something to be experienced in specific moments rather than generalized into decorative patterns. Ito's long career, spanning from the late Taisho era through the postwar decades, gave him time to develop a personal vocabulary for rendering light, weather, and terrain that remained consistent while gradually becoming more refined.
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.
Ito Takahashi was created by Ito Takashi (伊東孝).
Ito Takahashi depicts landscapes.
