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.
A pagoda dissolves into morning mist in this atmospheric landscape by Yuhan Ito, its tiered silhouette barely distinguishable from the surrounding haze. The technique of rendering architecture through mist — reducing solid form to suggestion — was central to the atmospheric tradition that Ito worked within, allowing the woodblock print to achieve something close to the effect of ink wash painting. The pagoda's familiar shape requires only an outline to be legible, and Ito exploits this cultural familiarity to push the image toward abstraction.
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.
Pagoda in mist was created by Yuhan Ito (伊藤雄半).
Pagoda in mist depicts temples & shrines and pagodas.
