About This Print
Note difference in color use between Catalogue Raisonné print and print in my collection. The green tint emotes an even more isolated feeling of this scene.Catalog Raisonné Entry
Source: Kawase Hasui; The Complete Woodblock Prints, Kendall Brown, Amy Reigle Newland, Amsterdam, Hotei Publishing, KIT Publishers, 2003, p. 122.
 Town of Kawarago today
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 image and entry 504 Evening rain in Kawarago (Kawarago no yau) Work of 1947 Hasui signature with Kawase Seal Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo (Seal A) Kawarago is in Hitachi city, Ibaraki prefecture |
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #4 |
| Title | Evening Rain in Kawarago 河原子の夜雨 Kawarago no yau |
| Series | |
| Artist |
Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) |
| Signature |
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| Seal | Kawase seal (see above) |
| Publication Date | 1947 |
| Edition | Likely first edition with publishers 6mm round, "A"-type seal, printed in red in lower left corner of image. (For a full discussion of Watanabe publisher seals see "Watanabe Publisher Marks, Seals and Editions") |
| Publisher |  Watanabe "A"-type seal (in use from approximately 1918-1924 and 1945-1957) reading (in Katakana): ワタナベ Watanabe Shōzaburō |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent - small scratch in boat image; five minor mounting remnants on verso |
| Miscellaneous | This impression was printed with a greenish tint as opposed to the more usuall bluish tint impression evident in the catalog raisonné image below. |
| Genre | shin hanga (new prints) |
| Format | ōban tate-e |
| H x W Paper | 15 x 10 3/8 in. (38.1 x 26.4 cm) |
| H x W Image | 13 7/8 x 9 5/8 in. (35.2 x 24.4 cm) |
| Collections This Print | Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art M.73.37.234 (unspecified edition with no seal visible on print image); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 50.2857 (unspecified edition with no seal visible on print image); The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo P00138-127 (unspecified
edition with 6mm "A" type seal visible in lower right corner of print image.) |
| Reference Literature | Catalogue Raisonné: Kawase Hasui: The Complete Woodblock Prints, Kendall Brown; Amy Reigle Newland, Hotei Publishing, KIT Publishers, 2003, ISBN: 9074822460, p.122, pl. 504; Kawase Hasui and His Contemporaries: The Shin Hanga (New Print) Movement in Landscape Art, Irwin J. Patcher, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, 1986, p. 77, pl. 95; Visions of Japan: Kawase Hasui's Masterpieces, Kendall H. Brown, Hotei Publishing, 2004, p. 123, pl. 87 |
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