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 woodblock print is characteristic of the more personal, less monumental end of Yuhan Ito's landscape practice — a work in which the atmosphere of a quiet scene carries more weight than the fame of the depicted location. The print's palette and compositional approach mark it as belonging to the same body of work as his identified landscapes of Nikko, Miyajima, and the Fuji Five Lakes, even as it presents a scene without the immediate recognition of a landmark subject.
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.
