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| Artist: | Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) — 川瀬巴水 |
| Title: | Fujikawa — 富士川 |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1933/2 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Watanabe — 渡辺 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Watanabe — 渡辺 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Double Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Double Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 46712 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Artist: Kawase Hasui
Title : The Fuji River
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Date: 1933
Publisher: S. Watanabe
Reference No: Hotei #315a
Size: 15 x 21 -1/2 " (Dai-oban)
Notes: RARE; DAI-OBAN FORMAT.
One of the major themes in Hasui’s works from 1930’s is Mount Fuji. Mount Fuji is often used as a symbol of the nation or government. Therefore, the popularity of Mount Fuji in Hasui’s period partly responses to growing nationalism of the period. In Hokusai’s time, depiction of Mount Fuji was also popular. The Edo people worshiped it as the Holy Mountain based on Shintöism and seemed to use the Fuji pictures as charms against some kinds of mishap in the unstable society of the late Edo period. Both Hokusai’s and Hasui’s Fuji is horizontally rendered, and both seem to stand with mysterious power. - From Nostalgic Japan exhibition, 10/18/2004. |
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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:
Artist: Kawase Hasui
Title : The Fuji River
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Edition: variant?
Date: 1933
Publisher: S. Watanabe
Reference No: Hotei #315a
Size: 15 x 21 -1/2 " (Dai-oban)
Condition: Very fine.
Notes: RARE; DAI-OBAN FORMAT. Provenance: Purchased from S. H. Mori in Chicago, mid-1930s. Three generations in an American family collection. |
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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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