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.
Sailboats drift across the glassy surface of Kawaguchiko or one of the Fuji Five Lakes while Mount Fuji rises in perfect reflection in both sky and water in this double-mirrored landscape by Yuhan Ito. The composition exploits the lake's capacity to create a symmetrical world — mountain above, mountain below, boats crossing the boundary between them — a device that distills the shin-hanga love of atmospheric, reflective water into its purest form. Ito's Fuji is characteristically soft, more mood than monument.
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 with sailboats on lake was created by Yuhan Ito (伊藤雄半).
Mt Fuji with sailboats on lake depicts landscapes, rivers & lakes, and mount fuji, set at Mount Fuji.
