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Kawase Hasui (1883–1957)
Lot 106

Kawase Hasui (1883–1957)

Three Landscape Prints

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Kawase Hasui (1883–1957)
Three Landscape Prints
1. Rain at Maekawa in Sagami Province (Soshu Maekawa no ame), woodblock print, from the series Selected Views of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido fukei senshu), signed Hasui, published by Watanabe Shozaburo, dated 1932 (Showa 7)

2. Lingering Snow at Urayasu (Urayasu no zansetsu), woodblock print, signed Hasui, published by Watanabe Shozaburo, dated 1932 (Showa 7)

3. Yakumo Bridge at Nagata Shrine in Kobe (Kobe Nagata jinja Yakumobashi), from the series Collected Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fukei shu II Kansai hen), signed Hasui, published by Watanabe Shozaburo, 1930 (Showa 5)
Each vertical oban:
39 x 26.4cm.
38.8 x 26.3cm.
39.1 x 26.2cm.

Specialist note

For another impression of the first and second in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, go to:
https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/rain-at-maekawa-in-sagami-province-s%C3%B4sh%C3%BB-maekawa-no-ame-from-the-series-selected-views-of-the-t%C3%B4kaid%C3%B4-road-t%C3%B4kaid%C3%B4-f%C3%BBkei-sensh%C3%BB-253570

https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/lingering-snow-at-urayasu-urayasu-no-zansetsu-251270

For a similar impression to the third in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, go to:
https://honolulumuseum.org/art/6321

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