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 many untitled prints by Yuhan Ito, this landscape communicates its subject through atmosphere and color rather than through the identification of a specific famous place. The print reflects a strand of Ito's production in which the goal was not topographic documentation but the evocation of a mood — the feeling of a season, a time of day, a quality of light over water or under trees. Such works are among the most direct expressions of his artistic values.
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.
