Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)

Azumakyo (Azuma Gorge), 1947 Tochigiken Kawanishi-cho (Kawanishi, Tochigi Prefecture), 1947

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Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
Azumakyo (Azuma Gorge), 1947

Tochigiken Kawanishi-cho (Kawanishi, Tochigi Prefecture), 1947
Woodcuts, each signed Hasui and sealed Kawase, published by Watanabe Shozaburo--good impressions and color, left margin lightly stained on first, lower left corner crease on second
36.8 x 27cm., first; 37.3 x 26cm., second (2)

Lot Essay

Examples of Azumakyo may be dated 1943 or 1947 in the margin. For a 1943 print with the seal of the printer, Ono Gintaro, see Narazaki Muneshige, Kawase Hasui Mokuhangashu/Kawase Hasui: Collected Woodcuts (Tokyo: Kodansha and Mainichi Shinbun, 1979), pl. 380.

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