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.
The great torii of Itsukushima Shrine stands in the waters of the Seto Inland Sea at Miyajima while sailing boats pass nearby, their white sails catching the wind against the island's forested hills in this seascape by Yuhan Ito. The combination of the floating gate and working sailboats places the sacred and the everyday in the same frame, the torii's vermillion columns rising from the same water that carries the fishermen's boats. Ito's calm, atmospheric treatment finds the harmony between these two presences.
伏見稲荷
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Uji Byodoin no ichibu
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Miyajima Torii and sail boats was created by Yuhan Ito (伊藤雄半).
Miyajima Torii and sail boats depicts temples & shrines and torii gates, set at Miyajima.
