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| Artist: | Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) — 川瀬巴水 |
| Title: | Lake Ashi in Winter — 芦ノ湖之冬 |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1949 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Watanabe Shozaburo — 渡辺 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Watanabe Shozaburo — 渡辺 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 47096 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
| There appears to be several colour variants for this scene, and even a variant with a different title that appears to read "Lake Ashi, Morning" 芦ノ湖（朝）. In fact, the variant "Morning" print appears to be more common than the "Winter" print. |
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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:
From: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/197177/print
This print also has the variant title.
Kawase Hasui 川瀬 巴水
Japanese, 1883-1957
Winter at Lake Ashino (Ashinoko no fuyu), 1949
Color woodblock print
26.6 x 39.5 cm (paper); 24.4 x 36.5 cm (block)
Bruce Goff Archive, gift of Shin'enkan, Inc., 1990.607.498 |
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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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