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| Artist: | Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) — 川瀬巴水 |
| Title: | Bishu Seto Kilns — 瀬戸 |
| Series: | Selected Views of the Tokaido — 東海道風景選集 |
| Date of first edition?: | 1934 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Watanabe — 渡辺 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Watanabe — 渡辺 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 37309 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Friday, 29 September 2006
Japanese woodblock print, Hasui. Titled Seto Bishu, dates from 1934 (Showa 9) per the notation in the lefthand margin. The color varies dramatically from the one pictured in the Moku Hanga Shu (the Hasui catalog raisonne); theirs is rendered in shades of grey and beige, where this one is primarily in shades of deep blue. (I just looked in the Hotei catalog as well, and their print is very close in tone to the one in the Moku Hanga Shu; I suspect that this one may be an intentional color variation from the original, because it really is quite different.) There is toning and some light areas to the print, althoughit is not too bad, largely because the image is quite dark to begin with. |
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| Artist Bio: |
川瀬 巴水。1883年（明治16年）5月18日 - 1957年（昭和32年）11月7 日）。大正・昭和期の浮世絵師、版画家。1918年 （大正7年）、風景画家として世に出る。以後、数多くの木版画を発表。 衰退した日本の浮世絵版画を復興すべく吉田博らとともに新しい浮世絵版画の叙情的世界に、自然に肉薄する近代人の視点を導入することにより、独自の世界を展開した。享年74歳。 |
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