Hasui: Zozoji Temple in Snow 1925 "B" seal Woodblock
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Japanese Woodblock Print, 1925, very early edition, published by Watanabe Shozaburo with publisher's "B" seal (used 1924-1930) in right margin, from the series Twenty Views of Tokyo, signed and sealed Kawase Hasui
SIZE IN INCHES: oban, 10.25 x 15.25 inches
COMMENTS: Perhaps Hasui's most sought after print in a very early edition.
KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957) was a Japanese woodblock print maker in the early 20th century. He and Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) are widely regarded as two of the greatest artists of the shin hanga style, and are known especially for their excellent landscape prints. During the forty years of his artistic career, Hasui worked closely with Watanabe Shozaburo (1885-1962), publisher and advocate of the shin hanga movement. His works became widely known in the West through American connoisseur Robert O. Muller (1911-2003). In 1956, he was named a Living National Treasure in Japan.
Hasui worked almost exclusively on landscape and townscape prints based on sketches he made in Tokyo and during travels around Japan. However, his prints are not merely meisho (famous places) prints that are typical of earlier ukiyo-e masters such as Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Hasui prints feature locale that are tranquil and obscure in the then-urbanizing Japan. The dreamlike quality in Hasui prints epitomizes a yearning for the past and a preservation of the past in the midst of rapid modernization.
SIZE IN INCHES: oban, 10.25 x 15.25 inches
COMMENTS: Perhaps Hasui's most sought after print in a very early edition.
KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957) was a Japanese woodblock print maker in the early 20th century. He and Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) are widely regarded as two of the greatest artists of the shin hanga style, and are known especially for their excellent landscape prints. During the forty years of his artistic career, Hasui worked closely with Watanabe Shozaburo (1885-1962), publisher and advocate of the shin hanga movement. His works became widely known in the West through American connoisseur Robert O. Muller (1911-2003). In 1956, he was named a Living National Treasure in Japan.
Hasui worked almost exclusively on landscape and townscape prints based on sketches he made in Tokyo and during travels around Japan. However, his prints are not merely meisho (famous places) prints that are typical of earlier ukiyo-e masters such as Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Hasui prints feature locale that are tranquil and obscure in the then-urbanizing Japan. The dreamlike quality in Hasui prints epitomizes a yearning for the past and a preservation of the past in the midst of rapid modernization.
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VG, some fading, margin and verso stains
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Hasui: Zozoji Temple in Snow 1925 "B" seal Woodblock
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