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.
One of the more intimate works in Yuhan Ito's undocumented body of prints, this landscape forgoes the iconic subjects — Fuji, Miyajima, the great pagodas — in favor of something quieter and less immediately identifiable. Without a title to specify the place, the composition speaks instead of a sensibility: the way Ito sees light accumulating in a landscape, the way atmosphere modifies the apparent solidity of trees, water, and architecture. It is a print about looking.
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.
