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 work by Yuhan Ito is one of a number of prints that survive in collections without the documentation that would connect them to a specific place or date. What they preserve instead is Ito's visual sensibility in its purest form: the careful attention to atmospheric light, the quiet compositional balance, and the restrained palette that together create his distinctive mood. Such works offer collectors and viewers direct access to a lesser-known but genuine strand of Showa-era shin-hanga landscape printing.
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.
