About This Print
Catalogue Raisonné Entry
Source: Kawase Hasui; The Complete Woodblock Prints, Kendall Brown, Amy Reigle Newland, Amsterdam, Hotei Publishing, KIT Publishers, 2003, p. 92. image and entry 278 Night at Shinobazu pond [Yoro no chihan (Showa shichinen shigatsu saku)] Work of April 1932 Publisher: Doi Sadaichi Hasui signature with Kawase seal The Shinobazu pond is in Tokyo |
Shinobazu Pond Today
Source: http://www.tokyoessentials.com/ueno.html
Shinobazu Pond dominates the southwestern side of Ueno. Today Shinobazu Pond is famous for lotuses, but in the past it nearly didn't survive at all. Just after World War II it was turned into a field for growing vegetables. Then, when that was no longer needed, rather than have it re-instated, many businessmen felt a carpark or baseball stadium would be better. Needless to say, the water was put back in, in 1949. A few years later however, out it came again. But this time the cause was a hole. The hole was accidentally drilled through the bottom during the construction of a new subway line
Shinobazu Pond dominates the southwestern side of Ueno. Today Shinobazu Pond is famous for lotuses, but in the past it nearly didn't survive at all. Just after World War II it was turned into a field for growing vegetables. Then, when that was no longer needed, rather than have it re-instated, many businessmen felt a carpark or baseball stadium would be better. Needless to say, the water was put back in, in 1949. A few years later however, out it came again. But this time the cause was a hole. The hole was accidentally drilled through the bottom during the construction of a new subway line
Shinobazu Pond today
Source: Ukiyo-e Gallery website article "Doi Hangaten: A Meeting with Mrs. Suzue Doi" (Tokyo, March 2000)by Andreas Grund http://www.ukiyoe-gallery.com/doiinterview.htm
"By the way, I remember a story my husband told me about Hasui. When Hasui made the drawings for the print Night at Shinobazu Pond, which Sadaichi had ordered from Hasui, it took him a long time and many attempts until we accepted the draft" - Mrs. Suzue Doi, wife of publisher.
"By the way, I remember a story my husband told me about Hasui. When Hasui made the drawings for the print Night at Shinobazu Pond, which Sadaichi had ordered from Hasui, it took him a long time and many attempts until we accepted the draft" - Mrs. Suzue Doi, wife of publisher.
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #3 |
| Title | Night at Shinobazu Pond 夜の池畔（不忍池）Yoro no chihan (Shinobazunoike) |
| Series | |
| Catalogue Raisonné | Number 278 (as listed in the Kawase Hasui; The Complete Woodblock Prints) |
| Artist |
Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) |
| Signature |
Hasui |
| Seal | Kawase |
| Publication Date | 1932 original publication date. This print later edition. |
| Edition | Likely a posthumous edition issued 1965 - 1995. |
| Publisher | Doi Teiichi (copyright and publisher's seal left margin) |
| Carver | Harada |
| Printer | Seki (worked for Doi from 1965 to 1995) |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent - penciled Japanese characters top margin |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Genre | shin hanga (new prints) |
| Format | Oban tate-e |
| H x W Paper | 9 1/2 x 14 1/4 in. (24.1 x 36.2 cm) |
| H x W Image | 11 x 15 3/4 in. (27.9 x 40 cm) |
| Collections | Los Angeles County Museum of Art M.2003.67.97 (notation of "later edition"); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 35.1886 (first edition) |
| Reference Literature |
Catalogue Raisonné: Kawase Hasui; The Complete Woodblock Prints, Kendall Brown, Amy Reigle Newland, Hotei Publishing, KIT Publishers, 2003, pl.278; Hanga ni miru Tokyo no fukei; Kanto daishinsai kara senzen made, Ota Kuritsu Kyodo Hakubutsukan, 2002, pl. 209, p. 53. |
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