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 the last of the untitled prints attributed to Yuhan Ito in this collection, this landscape encapsulates the atmospheric sensibility that defined his approach to the Japanese woodblock print. Whether depicting Fuji above a lake, mist over a temple, or moonlight on the water at Miyajima, Ito brought the same quality of quiet attention to the scene — a willingness to let the landscape speak through light and atmosphere rather than through the assertion of a famous subject. This print, titleless and undocumented, speaks in the same voice.
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, mount fuji, and abstract.
