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.
Cherry blossoms cloud the foreground of a village scene dominated by Mount Fuji's broad white peak in this spring landscape by Yuhan Ito. The composition compresses three scales — blossoms close and intimate, village middle-distance, mountain immense and remote — into a single frame that gives the print its characteristic depth. Ito uses the blossoms not merely as seasonal decoration but as a foreground screen through which the village and mountain are partially veiled, adding atmosphere and visual complexity.
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.
Mt Fuji and village in spring was created by Yuhan Ito (伊藤雄半).
Mt Fuji and village in spring depicts landscapes, spring, and mount fuji, set at Mount Fuji.
