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| Notes (1st edition) | Title: "Higashi, Hirakata" ("Hirakata Higashi-cho") Date: 1945 Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo Seal, Carver/Printer: Black "6mm-seal" (lower/right) and "I-seal" (Ono Gintaro's "printers seal") lower/right; Image Size: 9 1/2 x 13 5/8 Reference/Illus: Narazaki #382; Hotei #475. Comments: Attractive rural seascape. A gorgeous print with outstanding colors. A rare wartime printing--not often seen. | ||
| Publisher (this edition): | Watanabe | Watanabe | Watanabe |
| Date of this item: | 1945 | ||
| Notes (this edition) These notes were written by the original owner/seller/auctioner of the item and may be inaccurate.: | Badly faded example. No pink shading at all in the sky, plus strongly faded blues, greens, and yellows. | Title: "Higashi, Hirakata" ("Hirakata Higashi-cho") Date: 1945 ("First Edition" printing.) Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo Seal, Carver/Printer: Black "6mm-seal" (lower/right) and "I-seal" (Ono Gintaro's "printers seal") lower/right; appropriate "First Edition" seals. Image Size: 9 1/2 x 13 5/8 Impression: Very Fine. Skillfully executed "bokashi" shading to sky, hills, rock, buildings, and foreground; extensive "gauffrage" (embossing) to clouds, trees/rock, and water area; baren "sujizuri" (tracings) to lower foreground; nicely detailed carving. Condition: Excellent. Excellent colors. Clean front and verso. Normal drying holes top margin. (Very slight wear--no flaws noted.) |
Monday, 10 July 2006 This is a lovely and scarce woodblock print by the master Japanese artist Hasui Kawase. I have not been able to find this particular image in any of the resources I have on Hasui and Shin-hanga, so I知 going to have to just tell you what I can from the print itself. It just came out of an old San Francisco estate, along with a very rare print by the American-Japanese artist Lilian Miller (please see our other auctions). The print depicts sunrise over buildings at the water痴 edge (probably fishing shacks), and a solitary figure engaged in work. A beautiful scene. It痴 a standard oban size, with an image area of 13-5/8" by 9-5/8". It bears Hasui痴 "gingko" seal in the lower-left corner of the image area, and a black, 6mm Watanabe seal in the lower-right. I would tentatively date it to about 1945-1950. I've photographed it with flash and without, to give the most accurate representation possible. The margins are fully intact, and the sheet has no creases, tears or other damage to the paper. There are, however, some issues I must mention. First, at some point, the corners were glued to a card sheet. It was carefully removed, but some glue residue and paper from the card remain at the corners. This could largely or completely be ameliorated by conservation. Also, there is some faint but even toning to the image area that was inside the matted area. Again, it could be conserved, if one wanted, although it is very faint. |