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.
This untitled woodblock print by Yuhan Ito is one of many that circulate without formal institutional documentation, its identity resting on visual evidence alone. The print demonstrates Ito's characteristic ability to organize a landscape composition around a single atmospheric effect — the quality of light at dawn or dusk, the way mist behaves around trees or architecture — rather than around the fame of the depicted place. In this, it reflects the deeper impulse of the shin-hanga tradition.
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.
Untitled (yuhan-ito) was created by Yuhan Ito (伊藤雄半).
Untitled (yuhan-ito) depicts landscapes and abstract.
