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.
Bamboo grows dense along the bank of a stream in this spare, green landscape by Yuhan Ito, the tall canes reflected in the moving water below. Bamboo groves were a recurring subject in Japanese printmaking — their strong vertical forms, their rustling sound, their association with both purity and resilience — and Ito brings to this simple composition the atmospheric attention he applies to his larger landscape subjects. The stream provides movement and reflection to a scene that might otherwise be entirely still.
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.
Bamboo Grove by Stream was created by Yuhan Ito (伊藤雄半).
Bamboo Grove by Stream depicts rivers & lakes and trees.
