Lot Essay
The second comes with an original Watanabe folder.
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Shiobara no aki--Tenguiwa no shita (Autumn, Shiobara--Under the Tengu Rock) Niigata Ishizuemachi (Ishizue, Niigata Prefecture) Shinagawa, from the series Tokaido fukei senshu (Selected Tokaido landscapes) Nikko kaido (Road to Nikko)
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Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
Shiobara no aki--Tenguiwa no shita (Autumn, Shiobara--Under the Tengu Rock)
Niigata Ishizuemachi (Ishizue, Niigata Prefecture)
Shinagawa, from the series Tokaido fukei senshu (Selected Tokaido landscapes)
Nikko kaido (Road to Nikko)
Woodcut, each block dated, first 1950, second 1934, third 1931.4 and last 1930, signed Hasui and sealed Kawase, published by Watanabe Shozaburo except the second which is not signed but numbered 78/150 on verso --generally very good impressions and color, margin rubbed on first, pin holes and soiling on third, pin holes and tape residue on verso on fourth
39 x 26.1cm., the first, third and last; and 26.9 x 18.5cm., the second (4)
Shiobara no aki--Tenguiwa no shita (Autumn, Shiobara--Under the Tengu Rock)
Niigata Ishizuemachi (Ishizue, Niigata Prefecture)
Shinagawa, from the series Tokaido fukei senshu (Selected Tokaido landscapes)
Nikko kaido (Road to Nikko)
Woodcut, each block dated, first 1950, second 1934, third 1931.4 and last 1930, signed Hasui and sealed Kawase, published by Watanabe Shozaburo except the second which is not signed but numbered 78/150 on verso --generally very good impressions and color, margin rubbed on first, pin holes and soiling on third, pin holes and tape residue on verso on fourth
39 x 26.1cm., the first, third and last; and 26.9 x 18.5cm., the second (4)