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Kawase Hasui (After) Woodblock Print - Niju Bridge - 1936 Menu Cover

Kawase Hasui (After) Woodblock Print - Niju Bridge - 1936 Menu Cover


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Directory: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Woodblock Prints: Shin-Hanga: Pre 1940: Item # 1492049

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(After) Kawase Hasui
Morning at Niju Bridge (Nijubashi no Asa)
Date: Monday, August 17, 1936.
Size: 7.5 x 5.375 inches (19 x 13.6 centimeters).
Note: This rare print was the cover of a dinner menu for the Yasukuni Maru, a cruise ship on the N.Y.K. Line (Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha). It is identified as a Hasui in the Japanese publication, "The Nippon From Japan - Menu Design of the Cruise Ship Era (2017)(日本が運んだニッポンー客船時代のメニューデザイン).
Hasui produced a similar oban design in 1930.
Publisher: Likely Nippon Mokuhan Co. Tokio (Japan Woodblock Co. Tokyo), who produced another of our ship menu woodblock prints.
Medium: Shin-hanga woodblock print. The traditional means of woodblock print creation was employed for all steps through inking of the carved blocks. Then, the block was used in a mechanical printing process. made from a carved wood block.
Condition: Very good to excellent.
Note: "After" is noted in the absence of confirmation of the artist's involvement in the production process.