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 print is among the works attributed to Yuhan Ito that entered collections without formal documentation, relying on visual characteristics — palette, compositional approach, printing technique — rather than inscriptions or provenance records for attribution. Within the larger body of underdocumented 1930s shin-hanga work, Ito's prints are identifiable by their consistent atmospheric sensibility: a quietness that pervades even the most conventionally dramatic subjects.
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.
