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 red torii gate rises from a screen of tall bamboo, its lacquered pillars interrupting the green verticals of the canes in this quietly structured composition by Yuhan Ito. The combination of torii and bamboo distills two of the most iconic visual elements of the Japanese sacred landscape into a single intimate image. Ito treats the contrast between the bright vermillion of the gate and the deep, shadowed green of the bamboo as a color-field problem as much as a landscape subject, the two tones defining and intensifying each other.
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.
Torii Gate in Bamboo Grove (1) was created by Yuhan Ito (伊藤雄半).
Torii Gate in Bamboo Grove (1) depicts temples & shrines, torii gates, and architecture.
