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.
Mist rises from the surface of a garden pond, blurring the reflections of stone lanterns and overhanging pine in this intimate landscape by Yuhan Ito. The stillness of enclosed garden water lent itself naturally to the shin-hanga technique, with its capacity for gradated tones and subtle color washes that evoke atmosphere more than solid form. Ito treats the garden as a meditation space, its beauty deriving not from drama but from the quiet concentration of natural elements in a cultivated setting.
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.
Beautiful misty garden pond was created by Yuhan Ito (伊藤雄半).
Beautiful misty garden pond depicts rivers & lakes and gardens.
