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| Artist: | Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) — 川瀬巴水 |
| Title: | Moon At Magome — 馬込の月 |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1930 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Watanabe Shozaburo — 渡辺 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Watanabe Shoichiro — 渡辺章一郎 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Koban |
| DB artwork code: | 45805 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Japanese woodblock print by great shin-hanga artist Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) titled "Moon at Umagome" from the series “Twenty views of Tokyo” (Tokyo nijukei, Umagome no tsuki).
The print is dated Showa 5 (1930).
Probably the most famous Hasui night view - reproduced on the dust jacket of Kendall H. Brown Hasui’s catalog raisonne. One from the best Hasui’s night views - very romantic.
Signed by artist Hasui, has seal “Sui” in the image and titled in kanji at the left margin.
Faded example will have the yellow inks used for the moon and farmhouse window faded to white.
Oban size 15 1/2" x 10 1/4". There is also a koban edition made to be inserted into the catalog for the Hasui retrospective show at the Folk Museum, Tokyo, 1990. This scene was also published in a koban size as a limited edition of 120 prints for the 2002-published "First day cover" catalogue, and for the Ota-ku/Yamanashi Kawase Hasui exhibition catalogue circa 2010.
Documentation: Kawase Hasui: The Complete Woodblock Prints, Hotei, 2003 |
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| Notes (this edition)?: |
| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
A beautiful Japanese woodblock print, Moon at Magome 1930, Kawase Hasui (1883-1997), signed and sealed in lower left corner within the image and Published by Watanabe with 'D' seal (used 1931-1941), strong impression and strong bleed thru, this was not framed, a fine qualilty print /no toning, deckled edges, 15 1/4" x 10 1/4". Title and date in left hand margin, Watanabe seal in right hand margin, there is a crease (it has been my experience that this image , if printed in 1931, will have a crease in the same place. I date this 1931. |
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| Artist Bio: |
川瀬 巴水。1883年（明治16年）5月18日 - 1957年（昭和32年）11月7 日）。大正・昭和期の浮世絵師、版画家。1918年 （大正7年）、風景画家として世に出る。以後、数多くの木版画を発表。 衰退した日本の浮世絵版画を復興すべく吉田博らとともに新しい浮世絵版画の叙情的世界に、自然に肉薄する近代人の視点を導入することにより、独自の世界を展開した。享年74歳。 |
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