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| Publisher (this edition): | Shobisha | Shobisha | Shobisha | Shobisha | Shobisha |
| Date of this item: | >1960 | 1929 | 1929 | 1929 | 1929 |
| Notes (this edition) These notes were written by the original owner/seller/auctioner of the item and may be inaccurate.: | Toshogu Shrine in Ueno Park by Kawase Hasui. Genuine woodblock print dated Showa 4 (1929). Later impression from original wood blocks. Fine condition. 16.3 x 11.6 inches. Good texture and ink bleedthrough. Title and date in bottom margin. | This is a 9 1/4" x 14 1/4" woodblock print on paper by the Japanese painter and printmaker Kawase Hasui, 1883 - 1957. This image is ' Snow at Ueno Toshogu Shrine' 1929. Unframed. Fine condition. |
Title Toshogu Shrine (posthumous) Artist Hasui Kawase 1883-1957 Signature Hasui Seal sui Dated 1929 Period Shin hanga Publisher Shobisha Impression excellent ... (Posthumous) embossed Colors excellent Condition excellent Rating 1 = excellent Description "Ueno Toshogu". Toshogu Shrine and its pagoda stand in a snowy night. Format Oban tate-e Width 11.0 inches = 28.0 cm Height 15.9 inches = 40.5 cm |
Title Ueno Toshogu Shrine in the Snow Artist Hasui Kawase 1883-1957 Signature Hasui Seal sui Dated 1929 Period Shin hanga Publisher Shobisha Impression excellent ... (later edition, posthumous) Colors excellent Condition excellent Rating 1 = excellent Description Toshogu Shrine at Ueno on a snowy day. Width 11.4 inches = 29.0 cm Height 16.5 inches = 42.0 cm |
Hasui ‘Snow at Ueno Toshogu Shrine’ (1929) Beautiful temple scene with bijin under umbrella surrounded by drifting snowfall by Hasui Kawase (1887-1957) titled “Ueno Toshogu no Yuki” (translates as “Snow at Ueno Toshogu Shrine”) and margin dated originally as “Showa 4” (or 1929). One of 16 Hasui images originally published during 1929 and 1930 by Kawaguchi & Sakai (and as such, bears no Watanabe seals)—a posthumous edition struck off of the original blocks. Printed by Shobisha Publishers (who acquired the woodblocks when K & S dissolved in 1931). Circa mid-1980’s (publisher’s OLDER inventory), printed on clearly on older paper. To learn more, please click this link about ”Old Paper.”. SPECIAL NOTE—The remaining number of these OLDER “strikes” is at this time undetermined, but is certainly limited. The workmanship in both carving and printing is simply superb—very nice gradation of colors (“bokashi”) virtually throughout print with various shadings of greys, tans, reds, and soft blues; and a touch of “gauffrage” (“blind-printing” or embossing) to the umbrella’s “ribs” which give the print real “depth.” Print is in absolute pristine condition—no tears, no stains, no fading--and printed on a nice, heavier weight "hand-made" paper that is simply no longer available today. Absolute superb image!! Image measures 9 3/8 x 14 ¼ inches. |