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.
Trees frame the approach to Mount Fuji in this landscape by Yuhan Ito, their trunks creating a screen of vertical forms through which the mountain's white summit appears in the distance. The compositional device of framing Fuji through trees — giving foreground texture and depth to a scene that might otherwise be purely elemental — was widely used in shin-hanga landscape prints. Ito uses the trees to create a sense of approach and passage, as if the viewer is moving through forest toward an opening where the mountain reveals itself.
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.
Landscape of trees with Mt Fuji in background was created by Yuhan Ito (伊藤雄半).
Landscape of trees with Mt Fuji in background depicts landscapes, mount fuji, and trees, set at Mount Fuji.
