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. 100.Narazaki1 tells us that “The pines along the coast of the Inland sea stand out for their forms, which have been shaped by the strong sea winds. A daring composition.” Sanuki province corresponds to present-day Kagawa prefecture.
1 Narazaki Muneshige, Hasui's biographer and compiler of the artist's first catalogue raisoneeé Kawase Hasui mokuhanga shu, Mainichi Shinbun, Tokyo, 1979.
![]() Inland Sea. The Seto Inland Sea is beautiful place with reputation of "white beach with green pine forest", and occupies the great position as recreation places in Japan. |
Catalogue Raisonné image and entry 326 Teranohama, Sanuki Coast Series: Collection of scenic views of Japan II, Kansai edition (Nihon fukei shi II Kansai hen, Sanuki kaigan Teranohama) Work of May 1934 Hasui signature with Kawase Seal Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo (Seal D) |
Print Details
IHL Catalog | #21 |
Title | Teranohama, Sanuki
Coast 讃岐海岸寺の浜 Sanuki Kaiganji no hama |
Series | Collection of Scenic Views of Japan II, Kansai edition 日本風景集 関西篇 Nihon fūkei shū II Kansai hen |
Catalogue Raisonné | Number 504 (as listed in the Kawase Hasui; The Complete Woodblock Prints) |
Artist |
Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) |
Signature |
Hasui |
Seal | Kawase |
Publication Date | May 1934 (original publication) |
Edition | Later edition with publishers 6mm round, "A"-type seal, lower right corner. (For a full discussion of Watanabe publisher seals
see "Watanabe Publisher Marks, Seals and Editions") |
Publisher | Watanabe Shōzaburō 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 - light overall toning |
Miscellaneous | |
Genre | shin hanga (new prints) |
Format | Oban tate-e |
H x W Paper | 10 3/8 x 15 3/8 in. (26.4 x 39.1 cm) |
H x W Image | 9 3/8 x 14 1/4 in. (23.8 x 36.2 cm) |
Collections This Print |
Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art M.73.37.97 (6mm type "A" seal visible lower right corner; print is titled by Museum as Beach of Kaigan Dera, Sanuki,); Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston 50.669 ("E" type seal); The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo P00138-041
(unspecified
edition with no visible seal; print is titled by Museum as Tranohama Beach, Sanuki); MAK Vienna: Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art K.I. 13612-004; Honolulu Academy of Arts 19207 ("E" type seal) |
Reference Literature | Catalogue
Raisonné: Kawase Hasui; The
Complete Woodblock Prints" Kendall Brown, Amy Reigle Newland, Hotei Publishing, KIT
Publishers, 2003, p. 453, pl. 326 Kawase Hasui and His Contemporaries: The Shin Hanga (New Print) Movement in Landscape Art, Irwin J. Patcher, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, 1986, p. 70, pl. 77. |