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Notes (1st edition)
Publisher (this edition): Watanabe Watanabe Watanabe
Date of this item: 1951 1951 1951
Notes (this edition)
These notes were written by the original owner/seller/auctioner of the item and may be inaccurate.: 		Kawasi Hasui color woodblock … Title: "Yakushiji Temple, Nara"… Date: 1951 …Published by Watanabe (6mm seal left under porch railing, correct seal for 1st edition & obviously lifetime printing) … Image with full (deckled edge) margins … Condition: Fine. Some very slight toning & fading to over all piece with old tape glue residue 1/4 to 1/2 inch in on back edge of 3 sides (see back photo) … Note: This is a 1st Edition (lifetime) printing of one of Hasui's snow scenes

17-01-2005

Title Yakushi Temple
Artist Hasui Kawase 1883-1957
Signature Hasui
Seal artist's seal (sui)
Dated 1951
Publisher Watanabe
Technique/Medium Woodblock print
Impression excellent … (printing ca. 1945-1957) woodgrains visible on the sky.
Colors excellent
Condition very good … several light creases.
Description "Nara, Yakushi-ji" (Yakushi Temple in Nara). Devil's masks on the roof and five story pagoda are seen on a clear day after snow. The temple houses Yakushi Buddha (Skt. Bhaisajyaguru, patron of medicine and healing) and Twelve Divine Generals.
Note (no Watanabe seals). The English handwritings on the lower margin was not by Hasui but by a Watanabe employee for the prints sent to the stores for the occupational forces right after W.W.II.
Format Oban tate-e
Width 10.4 inches = 26.5 cm
Height 15.4 inches = 39.0 cm
Literature Brown, Kendall; Amy Reigle Newland, "Kawase Hasui; The Complete Woodblock Prints", Amsterdam, Hotei Publishing, KIT Publishers, 2003, ISBN: 9074822460, - pg.559, pl.559
 Saturday, 29 October 2005

Artist: KAWASE HASUI
Title: Yakushi Temple, Nara
Print Type: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Date: 1951
Publisher: Watanabe
Reference No: # 559
Size: 15 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches
Condition: Fine impression, color and state
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