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's body of undocumented prints is substantial enough to suggest that a significant portion of his production was made for informal distribution rather than for formal publication under a publisher's imprint. This untitled work is part of that body, its visual qualities consistent with his identified landscapes: the soft atmospheric haze, the carefully organized composition, and the muted tonal palette that characterizes Showa-era shin-hanga landscape printing at its most contemplative.
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.
