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Notes (1st edition)
Publisher (this edition): Watanabe Shozaburo Watanabe Shozaburo Watanabe Shozaburo Watanabe Shozaburo Watanabe Shozaburo
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Notes (this edition)
These notes were written by the original owner/seller/auctioner of the item and may be inaccurate.: 		Sunday, 12 October 2008

Measuring 13.3 x 20 cm this fine little unmounted unframed Japanese woodblock print depicts a lovely night scene of a small fishing village with house lights glowing bright while a lone vessel sits in the moon reflecting ocean. Print is signed on block upper left and lower left. Feels like mulberry paper.		 Wednesday, 4 October 2006

Japanese woodblock print postcard Dusk by Hasui. Single-owner sale, from the same G.I.’s estate as last week, an impressive collection of Watanabe tourist prints. Stored in his trunk in their original tissue wrapping, they are all pre-war, guaranteed, and in fresh, uncreased condition. Okada in Oshima (Oshima Okada) (Hasui book, Hp-66, Vol 1, p. 145). Very good impression, fine color, top 1/8” of top margin faintly creased, a diagonal crease bottom L corner tip (soiled), another faint diagonal crease just to the outside of the seal, faint blue transfer stain on house in R foreground. 5 1/4” x 7 3/4”. Published by Watanabe in the 1930s, sealed Hasui.
 Offered for sale is a Japanese woodblock print by Kawase Hasui (1883-1957), titled Okada, Oshima, c. 1930s. It is from the estate of Robert O. Muller, the world renown collector and dealer of shin hanga school prints. It is illustrated at plate Hb-66 of Kawase Hasui: The Complete Woodblock Prints by Kendall H. Brown. It was published by The Watanabe Color Print Co.

The print is in very good condition, with no condition problems to note, aside from thinning and light creasing to the top reverse margins. The dimensions are approximately 4 5/8 x 7 inches, plus margins.
 5 1/4 by 7 3/4 inches Hasui woodblock
from the Robert O. Muller collection
 5 1/2 by 7 3/4. In mint condition these are called postcard prints. By Hasui from the early part of 1940. Print is more purple than blue, I couldn't correct enough to get the right shade of purple.
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