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 print is among the untitled Yuhan Ito works that collectors and scholars encounter with some frequency in the secondary market, their attribution resting on a family resemblance to his documented output. The soft, atmospheric tone, the balanced composition, and the overall mood of quiet contemplation align with the sensibility visible in his identified landscapes of famous Japanese places. Without documentation, such works occupy a productive ambiguity — they are Ito, unmistakably, but unmoored from a specific place or moment.
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.
