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 landscape carries Yuhan Ito's characteristic atmospheric warmth — a print in which the quality of light matters more than the identity of the depicted place. The shin-hanga tradition placed great emphasis on the emotional register of a landscape, and Ito's most evocative work — documented or undocumented — achieves this by treating light, color, and mist as subjects in themselves. The absence of a title makes this aspect of the work more visible, not less.
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.
