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 stone torii gate stands at the entrance to a village shrine, a stone lantern beside it, the two markers of sacred space forming a threshold between the everyday world of thatched rooftops and the precinct of the divine in this woodblock print by Yuhan Ito. Village shrines were the spiritual centers of rural Japan, and Ito captures the familiar scene with the eye of someone who saw in these ordinary religious markers something quietly beautiful. The lantern's warm tone anchors the composition against the cooler grey of the stone gate.
伏見稲荷
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Uji Byodoin no ichibu
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Village with torii gate and lantern was created by Yuhan Ito (伊藤雄半).
Village with torii gate and lantern depicts temples & shrines, torii gates, and architecture.
