Lakeside Scene- Misty Morning with Torii
by Yuhan Ito
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
by Yuhan Ito
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.
Morning mist lies across a lakeside scene where a torii gate stands half-dissolved in the haze, its red pillars emerging from the white atmosphere as a ghost of architecture in this print by Yuhan Ito. The torii at the water's edge — evoking Miyajima's famous floating gate though possibly depicting another site — creates the print's central tension between the solidity of the sacred marker and the dissolving unreality of the mist. Ito was drawn repeatedly to these early-morning liminal states where landscape becomes atmosphere.
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.
Lakeside Scene- Misty Morning with Torii was created by Yuhan Ito (伊藤雄半).
Lakeside Scene- Misty Morning with Torii depicts landscapes and torii gates.
