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Notes (1st edition)Artist: Hasui Kawase 1883-1957 Signature: Hasui Publisher: Watanabe - (Seal used 1929-1942) Seal: Hasui Date: dated Taisho 11 = 1936 Size: 25,5 x 38,6 cm Format: oban Title: "Hirosaki saishoin" The Saisho Temple in Hirosaki (Sheet from the series Nippon fukei-shu higashinippon hen. Collection of japanese landscapes - series of Eastern Japan)
Publisher (this edition): Watanabe Watanabe Watanabe Watanabe Watanabe Watanabe
Date of this item: >=1989 >=1989 >=1989 >=1989 1930s
Notes (this edition)
These notes were written by the original owner/seller/auctioner of the item and may be inaccurate.:
You are bidding on what I believe is a Vintage Japanese Woodblock Print. It is one of 2 the I recently purchased at an estate sale from a local paper collector. She had items dated back into the early 1800's. Size is just over 15" by 10" inches including the margins.

Condition Good. You can see some of the wear to the edges and margins. The bottom and top are both creased along the edge where the ends of the print meet the margin. Also on the bottom it looks like just above the bottom left corner is a stain. Also the left margings have thumbtack holes at the top and bottom.
Title Saishoin Temple in the Snow
Artist Hasui Kawase 1883-1957
Signature Hasui
Seal sui
Period Shin hanga
Publisher Watanabe
Impression excellent … (Heisei Edition, posthumous)
Colors excellent
Condition excellent
Rating 1 = excellent
Description Saisho-in Temple in the snow.
Width 10.2 inches = 26.0 cm
Height 15.6 inches = 39.5 cm
Saishoin Pagoda at Hirosaki by Kawase Hasui. Genuine woodblock print. Fine condition. Oban size measures 15.6 x 10.3 inches. Title in left margin. Red sui seal and black Hasui characters in lower right of image. Round 7 mm seal in lower right of image. Red Heisei era Watanabe seal in right margin. Good ink bleedthrough on fine washi.

Saishoin Pagoda at Hirosaki by Kawase Hasui. Genuine woodblock print. Fine condition. Oban size measures 15.6 x 10.3 inches. Title in left margin. Red sui seal and black Hasui characters in lower right of image. Round 7 mm seal in lower right of image. Red Heisei era Watanabe seal in right margin. Good ink bleedthrough on fine washi.

Saishoin Temple in Snow, Hirosaki, 1936
Kawase Hasui (1883 – 1957)

A beautiful temple scene with the rich, deep red temple building contrasting the white snow and evergreens. The snow has been lightly inked with a glistening mica to create a shimmering effect like fresh snowflakes- wonderful effect.

Signed- Kawase Hasui with red artist’s seal “sui”
Sealed- Publisher Watanabe, 7mm seal, later edition original, from original blocks
Image size- 9 ½” x 14 3/8” (oban tate-e)
Condition- Excellent, no toning, tears, not mounted, full margins

Sunday, 6 February 2005

Artist: Hasui Kawase 1883-1957
Signature: Hasui
Publisher: Watanabe - (Seal used 1929-1942)
Seal: Hasui
Date: dated Taisho 11 = 1936
Size: 25,5 x 38,6 cm
Format: oban
Title: "Hirosaki saishoin"
The Saisho Temple in Hirosaki
(Sheet from the series Nippon fukei-shu higashinippon hen. Collection of japanese landscapes - series of Eastern Japan)
Impression: fine
Colors: fine - , fresh colors
Condition: very good
Literature: Watanabe, T., Kawase Hasui Mokuhangashu, Manichi Newspapers, Tokyo, Japan 1979, Reference: no. 217
Watanabe, T., Hasui, Kawase - The complete woodblock prints, Hotei Publishing, Leiden, Netherlands 2003, Reference: no. 313
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