Edition period is the primary value driver for Hasui prints. Pre-war lifetime editions with the Watanabe copyright seal (A through D types) consistently achieve 3–5× the price of posthumous reprints of the same design. Condition is the second key factor — unfaded colors, full margins, and absence of foxing or staining are essential. Subject matter (snow > rain > night > other) provides a further modifier within each edition tier.
Yugashima in Ito on the Izu Peninsula is a hot spring hamlet in the forested mountains of the peninsula's interior, the Kano River flowing through the narrow valley between inn buildings. This 1936 [oban](/glossary/oban) likely shows the valley village in an autumn or late-summer condition — the surrounding forested hillsides still green, the river visible between the wooden inn buildings. Ito's combination of coastal resort and inland mountain onsen gave Hasui two very different Izu subjects within a short distance of each other.
Nikko Chuzenjiko
1930
Color woodblock print; oban
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Niigata Gosaibori
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Yugashima, Ito (Ito Yugashima) was created by Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水) in 1936.
Yugashima, Ito (Ito Yugashima) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1936).
Yugashima, Ito (Ito Yugashima) depicts rivers & lakes, mountains, and village scenes.
