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.
A landscape by Yuhan Ito, untitled, unfolds in the characteristic soft tones of his shin-hanga practice. The artist's output included many such works — prints made for the market without formal titles, or works whose documentation was subsequently lost — and they constitute an important if underdocumented portion of his oeuvre. The print communicates through mood and atmosphere rather than through the specificity of a named place, which may in fact strengthen its emotional effect.
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.
