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.
Among Yuhan Ito's untitled prints, this landscape stands as evidence of the consistent visual values that shaped his entire body of work: the preference for atmospheric light over sharp definition, the calm compositional balance, and the muted palette that could evoke the mood of a Japanese place without insisting on its topographic identity. The print rewards patient attention, its effects subtle and cumulative rather than immediate.
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.
