Arts d'Asie

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) | Winter Moon at Toyama Plain (Fuyu no tsuki, Toyamagahara) | Showa period, 20th century

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June 11, 03:42 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 EUR

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Description

woodblock print, signed Hasui, sealed Kwase, titled in the lower right margin as above, publisher’s mark in the lower left margin Hanken shoyu Doi Sadakazu [copyright reserved, Doi Sadakazu], printer’s mark Suri Ono Tomi (Ono Tomisaburo) and carver’s mark Hori Fujikawa (Fujikawa Tsurujiro), dated Showa rokunen junigatsu saku (made in December 1931), 1^st state

Vertical oban: 37.9 x 25.5 cm., 12½ by 8⅜ in.

A similar impression of the same print is in the collection of the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, accession number 1980.765, go to:

https://chazen.wisc.edu/collection/4818/winter-moon-over-toyama-plain/?search=Toyama

Hasui produced a similar design with the publisher Watanabe Shozaburo in 1920, see Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 47.69:

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/252329

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