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 is among the body of prints attributed to Yuhan Ito that survive without formal records. The work reflects his consistent practice as a shin-hanga landscape artist of the 1930s — a period when atmospheric woodblock prints of Japan's famous places were produced for both domestic and international collectors. The atmospheric treatment of light and the careful compositional balance are hallmarks of Ito's visual approach, identifiable even in the absence of a title.
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.
