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All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1960 item #1355830 (stock #Hasui293)
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Kawase Hasui
Evening Shower at Imai Bridge, 1932
This is a lifetime edition printed between 1946 and 1957.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.5 x 10.5 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Bears the 6 mm seal.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent with a couple of scuffs at upper left corner. Uncirculated.
Provenance: The Robert O. Muller estate.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1960 item #1453492 (stock #Hasui560)
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Kawase Hasui
Moonlit Night at Miyajima (Miyajima no Tsukiyo)
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.25 x 10.5 inches.
Signed and sealed lower right.
Date: 1947.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Red, round 6 mm publisher's seal at lower left, indicating a first edition (first state).
Reference: Hotei #497.
Condition: Print is fully adhered to backing board.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1970 item #1486796 (stock #Hasui652)
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Kawase Hasui
Rain in Maekawa, Soshu
Series: Selection of Views of the Tokaido
Date: 1932.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.125 x 10.25 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. This design often has in either lower corner a black 6mm Watanabe publisher's seal nearly invisibly on a black background, which would indicate a lifetime edition. We could not locate one, though the paper appears adequately old.
Artist's signature and seal at lower left.
Reference: Hotei #223....
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1940 item #1374312 (stock #Hasui358)
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Kawase Hasui
Kiso River, Inuyama
Date: 1931.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15 x 10.5 inches.
Publisher: Bijutsusha. One of only eight Hasui designs by this publisher.
Artist's signature and seal lower left.
Reference: Hotei #176.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Lovely woodgrain in sky.
Condition: Right and bottom margins reinforced by conservator. Point-sized surface spot on water.
Note: A small section of the trees above the boat is printed in bla...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1960 item #1128096 (stock #Hasui 080)
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Kawase Hasui
Winter Moon Over Toyama Plain, 1931
Publisher: Doi Hangaten.
Carver/printer: Harada/Yokoi. This seal combination indicates an early post-war edition. Its pre-war use has also been widely debated.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.5 x 10.5 inches.
Condition: Slight ripple at top margin. Otherwise excellent.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1960 item #1374358 (stock #Hasui359)
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Kawase Hasui
Mount Fuji in Moonlight, Kawaibashi
Date: 1947.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15 x 10.5 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Bears the black 6 mm Watanabe seal in the lower right corner, indicating a first state printed between 1946-1957.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Reference: Hotei #241.
Condition: Paper is lightly toned on front. More heavily on back.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1960 item #1478162 (stock #Hasui631)
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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.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1940 item #1355909 (stock #Hasui294)
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Kawase Hasui
Ishizue, Niigata
Size: Chuban. Approximately 10.25 x 7.25 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Date: 1934.
This edition 1930s.
"Made in Japan" stamped on verso.
Bears the oval Hasui seal.
Reference: Hotei #352.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Provenance: The Robert O. Muller estate.
Condition: Excellent. Uncirculated.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1960 item #1418972 (stock #Hasui470)
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Kawase Hasui
Dusk at Tagonoura Beach
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.5 x 10.75 inches.
Date: 1940. This is a lifetime edition produced between 1946-1957.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Black 6 mm publisher's seal at lower left corner.
Hasui signature and seal.
Reference: Hotei #233.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Two original drying pinholes in margin.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1960 item #1352418 (stock #Hasui278)
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Kawase Hasui
Snow at Itsukushima.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. No publisher's seal but clearly on old paper.
Bears the Hasui signature and seal.
Date: 1932.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.5 x 10.5 inches.
Condition: Very good. Edge of right margin is toned.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1960 item #1434477 (stock #Hasui501)
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Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
Sakurada Gate (Sakuradamon)
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.375 x 10.25 inches.
Date: 1928.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Round, red 6 mm seal at lower left, indicating a lifetime printing (1946-1957). Old Watanabe seal at back.
Signed and sealed by the artist.
Reference: Hotei #156.
Condition: Excellent color. Toned paper. Two pieces of paper at back margins.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1960 item #1361474 (stock #Hasui305)
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Kawase Hasui
The Chunum Temple, Mt. Chiri, Korea
(Chôsen Chirizan Sen'in-ji) - Views of Korea.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Date: 1940. A lifetime edition bearing the black Watanabe 6 mm seal (used between 1946-1957) within the image at the lower left corner.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.5 x 10.5 inches.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Top back margin has a piece of tape.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1980 item #1350820 (stock #Hasui270)
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Kawase Hasui
Dusk (Twilight) at Ushibori
Size: Dai-oban. Approximately 17.0 x 11.75 inches.
Signed and sealed by the artist.
Date: 1930.
Publisher: Shobisha (acquired original blocks from Kawaguchi and Sakai). A posthumous edition.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1960 item #953684 (stock #Hasui 044)
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Artist: Kawase Hasui
Title: Daimotsu, Amagasaki
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo, 6mm seal.
Date: 1940. The 6mm seal was used between 1946 and 1957.
Size: Oban, approximately 15.5 x 10.25 inches.
Condition: Pristine. Unframed. Never displayed. The two left margin pinholes are the original state.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1960 item #1178775 (stock #Hasui 098)
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Kawase Hasui
Lake Chuzenji, Nikko, 1930.
Size: Oban, approximately 16.5 x 11.25 inches.
This is a very desirable edition published in the 1950s by Shobisha, which acquired publishing rights from Kawaguchi and Sakai.
Bears the round, red seal used by Shobisha in the 1950s on the verso.
Condition: Excellent. One corner has a light crease at the margin.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1940 item #1472281 (stock #Hasui613)
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Kawase Hasui
Terajima in the Snow
Date: 1930s.
Image size: 6 x 4.125 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Reference: Hotei Hp-69.
"Made in Japan" stamped on verso.
Hasui seal at lower left.
Woodblock print is attached along its top edge to original 1930s card.
Condition: Excellent.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1960 item #1316856 (stock #Hasui225)
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Kawase Hasui
Rain at Ushibori, 1929.
Size: Oban. Approximately 16.75 x 11.75 inches.
Publisher: Origanlly published by Kawaguchi and Sakai. This edition is ca. 1950s and was published by Shobisha.
Condition: Front is excellent. Verso is lightly toned. Two original drying pinholes at margin.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Woodblock Prints : Pre 1940 item #1463054 (stock #Hasui578)
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Kawase Hasui
Autumn at Shiobara
Date: 1930s.
Size: Koban. Approximately 7.75 x 5.0 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Artist's oval seal at upper right.
Reference: Hotei #Hp-36.
Provenance: The Robert O. Muller estate.
"Made in Japan" stamped on verso.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Top corner margin has original drying pinhole.