Catalog (782)

Kawase Hasui
Ikegami Honmonji (Honmon Temple, Ikegami)
Date: 1931.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15 x 10.125 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Watanabe round 6mm seal, indicating a lifetime edition printed 1946-57.
Signed and sealed within the image.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Reference: Hotei #245.
Condition: Adhesive residue at back visible only slightly in the tops of the trees.
Note: One of Hasui's most loved snow scenes.

Kasamatsu Shiro (1898 - 1991)
Spring Night, Ginza
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.25 x 10.625 inches.
Date: 1934.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. 1946-57 edition.
Watanabe black 6mm seal at lower left corner.
"Printed in Japan" and "Original Works of Art" stamped on back.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Pencil note "Shiro" and tape residue at top margin.

Kawase Hasui
Ikegami Honmonji (Honmon Temple, Ikegami)
Date: 1931.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.25 x 10.5 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Watanabe round 6mm seal, indicating a lifetime edition printed 1946-57.
Signed and sealed within the image.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Reference: Hotei #245.
Condition: Lightly toned paper at back and margin. Tape residue at back margin.
Note: One of Hasui's most loved snow scenes.

Kawase Hasui
Yakumo (Yagumo) Bridge at Nagata Shrine, Kobe
Series: Collection of Scenic Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.5 x 10.25 inches.
Date: 1934. A lifetime edition produced between 1946-1957.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. 6mm publisher's seal at lower right.
Signed and sealed by the artist.
Reference: Hotei #327.
Ships with Watanabe brown folder (see last photo).
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition...

Kawase Hasui
Tite: Namakiri, Shima
Date: 1942
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Publisher's 6mm seal lower left. A lifetime edition printed 1946-57.
Signed and sealed by the artist.
Size: Oban. 15.375 x 10.25 inches.
Reference Hotei #463.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Kawase Hasui
Kiyomizu Temple Kyoto
Date: 1933.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Publisher's 6mm seal at lower left. A lifetime edition (printed 1946-1957).
Signed and sealed by the artist.
Size: Oban. 15.25 by 10.25 inches.
Reference: Hotei #324.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Margins and back are toned. Slight creasing at upper left corner.
This is the only print that features Hasui in self-portrait.

Kasamatsu Shiro (1898 - 1991)
Bamboo in Early Summer (Shoka no Take)
Date: 1954. First edition.
Publisher: Unsodo.
Size: Oban. Approximately 16 x 10.5 inches.
Signed and sealed in Japanese in the image at lower right.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Removed from its original folder.

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
Snow at the Silver Pavilion (Ginkakuji no yuki)
Date: 1951.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Black 6 mm seal at lower left, indicating a first edition (1946-57).
Hasui signature and seal at lower left.
Size: Oban. 15.25 x 11.25 inches.
Reference: Hotei #560.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Back margins have tape residue. Two small bumps at lower margin edge repaired by conservator. Slight fading.

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
Zentsuji Temple, Sanshu
Series: Collection of Scenic Views of Japan, Kansai edition.
Date: 1937
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.25 x 10.25 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Watanabe 6 mm seal at lower right, indicating a lifetime edition produced between 1946 and 1957.
Reference: Hotei #334.
Condition: Tape at top margin. Upper left image edge has slight tonal difference.

Ohara Koson (Shoson)
Egrets
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.25 x 10.25 inches.
Date: 1926. This edition 1946-1957.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Watanabe 6 mm in lower left corner of image.
Shoson signature and seal.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Reference: S14.4 in Crows, Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson (Reigle Newland).
Features embossing on the birds' bodies.
Condition: Back of print has toning. Two original drying pinhole...

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
Rain at Omiya
Date: 1930
Size: Oban. 16.75 x 12 inches.
Date: 1930. This edition later.
Publisher: Shobisha (Acquired original blocks from Kawaguchi and Sakai).
Signed and sealed by the artist.
Reference: Hotei #215.
Condition: Crease at top center margin (photo). Light toning. Top back margin has tape. Framer's pencil note in back bottom margin.

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
Moon at Magome
Date: 1930.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.25 x 10.25 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Printed during the artist's lifetime with Watanabe 6mm (used 1946-57) at lower right.
Reference: Hotei #165.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Two pieces of tape at top back margin.
"The scene conveys the rustic 'poetic' charm of Magome, the area where Hasui lived." - Narazaki
Magome was the co...

Kawase Hasui
Title: Kawaguchi
Date: 1950s ~ 1960s.
Size: 5.75 x 3.75 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo
Hasui seal lower left.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print tipped along its top edge to original blank card.
Condition: Excellent.

Attributed to Kawase Hasui (We're not certain)
Mt. Fuji From Hara (Hara no Fuji)
Date: 1930s.This edition early postwar.
Size: 5.75 x 3.75 inches.
A woodblock print tipped along its top edge to an original card.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Hiratsuka Un-ichi (1895 ~ 1997)
Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo (aka. Night at Nihonbashi Bridge)
Date: 1946
Card size: Approximately 6.0 x 4.25 inches.
This woodblock print is the front cover of a Christmas/New Year card signed in pen by the artist at the inside.
Reference: Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Kawase Hasui
Late Autumn at Lake Yamanaka
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.25 x 10.5 inches.
Date: 1947
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Bears the Watanabe 6 mm seal, consistent with a lifetime strike and first edition.
Condition: Excellent. Light tone at margin.
A breathtaking view of Mount Fuji with sunlit foreground in a rarely seen Hasui design.

Paul Jacoulet
L'Attente, Celebes Menado
Size: Dai-oban.
Date: September 15, 1947.
Edition: 175/350.
Carver: Maeda, Printer: Fujii.
Condition: Excellent.
"The pink background is sprinkled with bits of silver leaf… The curl of smoke from the lady's cigarette is gauffrage." - Richard Miles, The Prints of Paul Jacoulet.

Paul Jacoulet
Les Perles, Mandchoukuo
Size: Dai-oban.
Date: December 28, 1950.
Edition: 297/350.
Carver: Maeda, Printer: Ogawa.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Very good color and condition. Toning at back.
"More than 300 individual impressions of nearly 60 blocks were needed to create this ultimate technical tour de force of twentieth century art." - Richard Miles, The Prints of Paul Jacoulet.

Paul Jacoulet
Le Mandarin Aux Lunettes, Mandchoukuo (The Mandarin with Glasses, Manchuria).
Date: May 22, 1950.
Size: Dai-oban. Approximately 19 x 14 inches.
Edition: 231/250.
Carver: Maeda, Printer: Uchikawa.
"Note the mica of the lenses, made by using crushed pink pearls." - Richard Miles, The Prints of Paul Jacoulet.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Slight fading. Toning on verso.

Paul Jacoulet
Le Nid, Coree (The Nest, Korea).
Date: December 14, 1941.
Size: Dai-oban.
Edition: 120/150. Prints from this original edition of 150, which has more muted colors, are exceedingly rare.
Carver: Maeda.
Condition: Very good. Faint matte line.
"[This print was] a gift intended for the artist's mother on her birthday...The model is reputed to be the old servant who trained young Jacoulet in calligraphy, and remained with him for many years." - Richard...

Kawase Hasui
Woman walking in snow with dog
Date: Early postwar.
Image size. Approximately 5.75 x 3.75 inches.
The woodblock print is tipped at the top to an original early postwar Christmas card.
Condition: Print is excellent. Card is slightly worn.

Kawase Hasui
Shirozaki, Tajima, 1924.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.5 x 10.5 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Bears the Watanabe C (sausage) seal indicating printing between 1929-1942.
Signed in purple and sealed in red by the artist.
Condition: Excellent.

Ito Takashi
Late Autumn at Yachi in Towadako National Park (Charcoal-Making at Lake Towada National Park)
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Date: 1950.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. A first edition bearing the round, black 6 mm seal in the lower right corner.
Condition: Very slight fading evident at image edge. - A rarely seen print.

Kanmei F. K. (Active 1940s)
General Douglas MacArthur, 1947.
Size: Oban. Approximately 16.75 x 11.0 inches.
Edition: First and only.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Bears rarely used Watanabe seal at lower right margin.
Carver: Aoyanagi Isao (seal)
Printer: Ono Gintaro (seal)
Sealed by the artist and signed in English and Japanese.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Paper slightly toned. Small surface spot at right. Original drying pinholes ...

Paul Jacoulet
Le Tresor, Coree (The Treasure, Korea)
Date: May 21, 1940.
Size: Approximately 18.25 x 14 inches.
Jacoulet signature and watermark with butterfly seal.
Edition: 155/250.
Carver: Maeda. Printer: Honda.
Reference: Print #66 in The Prints of Paul Jacoulet by Richard Miles
Condition: Excellent.
"This classic scene of mother and child is one of Jacoulet's best received prints." - Miles

Paul Jacoulet
Cactus, Mers du Sud (Cactus, South Seas)
Date: November 20, 1941.
Edition: 99/350. Fewer than 250 impressions made.
Size: 19 x 14 inches.
Sparrow seal. Carver: Maeda. Printer: Uchikawa
Reference: No. 79 in The Prints of Paul Jacoulet by Richard Miles
Condition: Excellent.
Note: Miles writes, "one of only three prints that do not contain any human figures....The pale blue background is very fugitive and is rarely found unfaded." That pale bl...

Paul Jacoulet
Chagrin d'Amour: Kusai (Sorrows of Love, Kusaie, East Carolines)
Date: 1940.
Print size: Approximately 6.25 x 4.25 inches.
Publisher: Self-published, from a series of surimono.
Reference: No. 70, The Prints of Paul Jacoulet (Miles).
Print is tipped along its top edge at the inside of an original Christmas card.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Margin has very faint matte line. Card has tape marks. Slight wave at top of paper.

Paul Jacoulet
Souvenirs d'Autrefois: Japon (Memories of the Past, Japan)
Date: 1941.
Print size: Approximately 6.25 x 4.25 inches.
Publisher: Self-published, from a series of surimono.
Reference: No. 78, The Prints of Paul Jacoulet (Miles).
Print is tipped along its top edge at the inside of an original Christmas card.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Lower margin has very faint matte line. Card has tape marks.

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
Spring in Daigo, Kyoto
Date: 1950.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Black 6 mm seal at lower right, indicating a first edition (1946-57).
Hasui signature and seal at lower left.
Size: Oban. 15.25 x 10.5 inches.
Reference: Hotei #537.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: At the perimeter of the verso, a conservator has removed tape and reinforced the paper.

Kawase Hasui
Snow at Heian Shrine Kyoto
Date: 1948
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Watanabe 6mm seal at lower right, indicating a first state produced between 1946-1957.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.75 x 10.5 inches.
Reference: Hotei #510.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Top margin has two original drying pinholes.

Ohno Bakufu
Flying Fish (Tobiuo)
Series: Familiar Fishes of Japan (Dai Nihon gyorui gashu)
Size: Oban. Approximately 16 x 11.25 inches.
Date: 1938.
Edition: No. 260 (noted on back in pencil).
Publisher: Kyoto Hanga-in. Publisher's seals on back in English and Japanese.
Artist's signature and seal upper right.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print employing mica and gofun highlights.
Condition: Light toning to former matte edge. Verso toned. Top back center...

Kawase Hasui
Tanigumi Temple, Mino
Date: 1947.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.5 x 10.25 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
A first edition bearing the 6mm seal in the lower right corner.
Reference: Hotei #498. "The Tanigumi temple was first built in 798 and belongs to the Tendai sect of Buddhism. Mino province corresponds to part of present-day Gifu prefecture."
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent color. Light crease at top center. Ori...

Kawase Hasui
Nakhwa Puyo (Fuyo Rakkagan). From the series Eight Views of Korea (Chosen Hakkei).
Date: 1939.
Size: Oban. Approximately 16.5 x 11.5 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Watanabe H seal at right margin used 1942-1945. Printer Ono Gintaro seal at lower right margin. This edition was printed 1943-45.
Reference: Hotei #433.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Tiny indentation at lower border line. "Nakhwa (Rock of the falling flowers) is s...

Kawase Hasui
Kyonghwe Pavilion, Kyongsong
Series: Eight Views of Korea
Date: 1939. This edition 1943-45.
Size: Dai-oban. Approximately 16.75 x 11.75 inches.
Hasui signature and seal lower left.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. G seal at right margin. Used 1942-45.
Printer: Ono Gintaro. Seal in right margin. Used 1943-1947. Reference: Hotei No. 436.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Very good to excellent. A faint foxing spot on the snowy r...

Hiroshi Yoshida
Little Harbour
Date: 1941.
Size: Chuban. Approximately 10.375 x 7.825 inches.
Signed and sealed in the image. Titled and signed in pencil.
Jizuri seal at upper left margin indicating self-printing by the artist.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Kawase Hasui
Mt. Fuji Seen From Oshino (Oshino no Fuji)
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.625 x 10.5 inches.
Date: 1942. First edition.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Publisher's "G seal" in right margin (used 1942-45).
Signed and sealed by the artist.
Reference: Hotei #465.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Ide Gakusui
Heron in Rain
Date: ca. 1950.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.25 x 10.25 inches.
Artist's signature and seal lower right.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Round, red 6mm seal lower left, which is consistent with a first edition (produced 1946-1957).
Embossing is featured on the snowy egret's body. Please see enlargement 2.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Adhered to board via contact sheet.

Rain at Shinobazu Pond
Sealed "S". Artist unidentified.
Date: ca. 1940s.
Print size: 3.75 x 2.75 inches.
Publisher: Unsodo. From a group included in an Unsodo client sample book.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print attached along top edge only to original holiday card.
Condition: Tiny dot in sky.

Artist: Oda Hironobu [signature and seal]
Descrption: Mountain scene
Date: 1930s
Size: Oban, approximately 15.5 x 10.5 inches
Publisher: Maeba Han (oval seal)
Condition: A thinning area at the upper left. Crease at left. See verso photo of small tape/pencil notes.
- Oda Hironobu was born in 1888. His prints were produced in very small quantities and are rare. The colors in the hills would be at home in a California/Western woodcut.

Kawase Hasui
Temple in Snow
Date: ca 1930s.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Size: 7.25 x 5.0 inches.
Condition: Excellent. Tipped at top edge to original sheet.
This print does not appear in Kawase Hasui: The Complete Woodblock Prints. We could find only one other example.

Takahashi Shotei (Hiroaki)
Onward to the Sea-gall
Date: 1939-40
Publisher: Shobido Tanaka
Shotei.com no. ST-40.
Globe's Catalog No: C-562
Size: 6.0 x 4.0 inches.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Very good.

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Arashiyama
Date: 1930s. Size: Chuban. Approximately 10.25 x 7.5 inches.
Publisher: Takemura. Koitsu.com catalog number: TK-TM-64
This print is rare.
Condition: Excellent.

Kawase Hasui
Lingering Snow at Hikone Castle, 1934
Series. Selection of Views of the Tokaido Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
First edition. Bears the Watanabe C seal (sausage seal) used between 1929 and 1942.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.50 x 10.25 inches.
Reference: Hotei #226.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Slight age toning.

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Yaizugahara
Date: 1937
Size: Approximately 5.75 x 3.75 inches.
Publisher: Doi
Reference: Koitsu catalog TK-DH-113.
Bears the Koitsu seal and the Doi seal.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Arai Yoshimune
Pine Beach by Moonlight
From the Hasegawa Night Scenes series.
Date: 1910s. Printed 1938-1960.
Size: Chuban. Approximately 11.0 x 8.0 inches.
Publisher: Nishinomiya Yosaku
Condition: Excellent with slight waviness at top margin.
- A rarely encountered night scene design.

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Port Tomo, May 1939
Size: Chuban. Approximately 10.0 x 7.5 inches.
Publisher: Takemura Hideo
Koitsu catalogue no.: TK-TM-54
Condition: Tipped at top to original cardstock. Very light foxing.

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Himeji Castle, March 1936
Size: Mitsugiriban. Approximately 16.0 x 7.25 inches.
Publisher: Takemura Hideo
Koitsu catalogue no.: TK-TM-14
Condition: Tipped at top to original cardstock. Toning and light foxing.

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Nara Horyuji, 1930s
Size: Chuban. Approximately 10.5 x 7.5 inches.
Publisher: Takemura Hideo
Koitsu catalogue no.: TK-TM-72
Condition: Tipped at top to original cardstock. Toning and light foxing.

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Onomichi Saikokuji, December 1935
Size: Mitsugiriban. Approximately 16.0 x 7.25 inches.
Publisher: Takemura Hideo
Koitsu catalogue no.: TK-TM-10
Condition: Tipped at top to original cardstock. Wavy crease and and light foxing.

Noel Nouet(1885-1944)
Kuromon, 1936. From the 24 Views of Tokyo series.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.5 x 10.25 inches.
Publisher: Doi Hangaten. Carver: Ikeda, Printer: Yokoi. Bears the Doi watermark.
An early edition of rarely seen design.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Kawase Hasui
The Shrine of Kasuga at Nara
Date: 1935
Size: Oban. 14.0 x 9.75 inches.
Publisher: Shimbishoin (for Japanese Government Railways)
Bears the oval Hasui seal
This print is as issued by the Railway on it's original display backing with string hanger. The original description tag is on the verso.
Condition: Light soiling and toning.
Very few of these survive. Please Google the excellent article, "The Unknown Kasuga Shrine Print of Hasui KAWASE," b...

Kawase Hasui
Kawai Bridge
Date: 1930s
Size: Koban. Approximately 7.5 x 5.0 inches.
Provenance: The Robert O. Muller collection
Condition: Excellent.

Kawase Hasui
Torii Gate in Snow
Date: 1930s.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Image size: Koban. Approximately 5.5 x 3.5 inches.
Condition: Excellent. Tipped at top and bottom to original cardstock.

Elizabeth Keith (1887-1956)
Little Pavilion, Peking, 1935.
(aka. Little Pavilion, Coal Hill, Peking)
Size: Approximately 14.75 x 9.25 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Condition: Excellent with a couple of very faint creases. Title noted in pencil on back.

Ohara Koson
Cherry Blossom and Full Moon, 1932.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.25 x 10.25 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Bears the Watanabe C seal, indicating a first edition.
Reference: No. S43.8 and p. 211 in "Crows Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson" (Reigle Newland).
Condition: Excellent with very faint mark near lower left corner.
Very rare.

Kawase Hasui
The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province, 1934.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Bears the D seal, indicating a first edition.
Size: Oban, Approximately 15.25 x 10.25 inches.
Condition: Excellent with nearly invisible tone line near left margin.
A magnificent rare print.

Hiroshige Ando
Seven Ri Ferry Boat Approaching Kuwana
Publisher: Takemura Hideo. Bears round Takemura seal.
Date: 1930s. Collected after WWII but very likely from Takemura's pre-war stock.
Size: 5.5 x 3.5 inches.
Tipped at top to original greeting card.
Condition: Very good. Card discolored with hole at back cover.

Katsuhira Tokushi
Kamado (Cooking Stove)
Customs of Akita series.
Date: 1939.
Self-published by the artist.
Size: Oban. Approximately 16.0 x 11.5 inches.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Very good. Outstanding color. Toning at margins, back and upper right corner. Tape at back top margin.

Kawase Hasui
Torii Gate on a Snowy Day
Date: 1930s
Size: Approximately 5.75 x 3.75 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Tipped at top to original cardstock.
Condition: Excellent.

Ohara Shoson (Koson)
Little egret on the bough of a willow tree
Size: Chuban. Image size is approximately 9.75 x 6.75 inches.
Date: ca. 1930s.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Illustrated as S14.7 on page 207 of "Crows, Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson (Reigle Newland)."
Tipped at top edge to original cardstock.
Condition: Excellent.