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 print by Yuhan Ito demonstrates his mastery of the tonal gradations that were central to 1930s shin-hanga production — the capacity to move from pale, diffused light at the edges of a scene to deeper, more concentrated shadow at its center. Without a title to direct interpretation, the viewer engages with the print on purely visual terms, reading its composition for the story of light and atmosphere that Ito tells through color and form. The work is a reminder that Ito's craft was inseparable from his way of seeing.
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.
