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.
Yuhan Ito produced a significant number of prints that have entered collections without formal titles, and this work is among them. Its composition likely draws on the recurring subjects of Ito's documented output — water, mist, sacred architecture, the light of a particular season — rendered in the restrained woodblock technique that distinguishes his approach. Where formal documentation is absent, the visual evidence of careful craftsmanship and atmospheric sensibility speaks most directly.
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.
