Kawase Hasui Japanese Woodblock Moonlit & Snow Prints

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Clouds in Sunset Glow by Kawase Hasui Lifetime Printing, Showa 11 1936 Made in Japan stamped on back 12 3/4" by 8 7/16" HAS27 $1,250 very good condition, two drying holes left edge, tiny paper loss as shown, good bleed-throughh

Hama Cho River Bank by Kawase Hasui Artist's seal in red, posthumous printing 15 1/2" by 10 3/8" HAS29 $825 excellent condition, good bleed-throughh

Moon over the Ara-kawa River, Akabane, Tokyo by Kawase Hasui 15 1/2" by 10 3/8" HAS22 $445 excellent condition, good bleed-throughh	Nihon-bashi bridge, Tokyo (before dawn) by Kawase Hasui 16 1/8" by 10 1/2" HAS25 $475 excellent condition, good bleed-throughh

Osaka Soemon-cho no yu -Evening at Soemon-cho, Osaka Lifetime Printing, Showa 8 1933 Publisher: Wantanabe Shozaburo, Wantanabe mokuhan bijutsu gaho kosaku seal 15 1/2" by 10 1/4" HASA18 $3,200 Note title in pencil top margin, inventory number on verso upper right corner	Shosu Maekawa no ame-Rain in Maekawa, Shosu Showa 8 1933 Later Printing, Publisher: Wantanabe Shozaburo, Heisei era Wantanabe seal 15 11/16" by 14 3/8" HASA19 $650 excellent condition, good bleed-through

Fuyu no tsuki, Toyamagahara-Winter Moon over Toyama Plain Later Printing Publisher: Doi Eichi circa 1981-1995 Hanken shoyu Doi Eichi seal 15 1/2" by 10 5/8" HASA6 $850 excellent condition, good bleed-through	Haru no tsuki, Ninomiya kaigan-Spring Moon at Ninomiya Beach Later Printing Publisher: Doi Eichi circa 1981-1995 Hanken shoyu Doi Eichi seal 15 1/2" by 10 5/8" HASA8 $850 excellent condition, good bleed-through

Matsushima Zaimokuto -Zaimoku Island in Matsushima Signed & titled by Hasui, Kawase Seal Lifetime Printing Showa 8 1933 Publisher: Wantanabe Shozaburo, 6 mm round Wantanabe seal 15 3/16" by 10 3/8" HASA12 $3,200 excellent condition, good bleed-through

Yamagata Yamadera -Yama Temple in Yamagata Lifetime Printing Showa 18 1941 Publisher: Wantanabe Shozaburo 15 1/2" by 10 1/4" HASA5 $2,750 excellent condition, good bleed-through

Kanetsuki Bell Tower in Okayam- by Kawase Hasui Signed & titled by Hasui, Kawase seal Lifetime Printing Showa 22 1947 Publisher: Wantanabe Shozaburo Wantanbe 6 mm seal bottom left corner 15 3/8" by 10 5/8" HASA3 $4,250 Single tiny pinhole upper left, excellent condition, good bleed-throughh

Todoroki in Mito by Kawase Hasui Signed & titled by Hasui, Kawase seal Lifetime Printing Showa 21 1946 Publisher: Wantanabe Shozaburo Wantanbe red square gift seal bottom left corner 15 by 10 3/8 inches HASA4 $4,250 excellent condition, good bleed-throughh

Atago-yama Hill in Spring, Tokyo by Kawase Hasui 15 1/2" by 10 1/2" SHN554 $425 excellent condition, good bleed-throughh

Evening Snow at Insinomaki by Kawase Hasui 1921 Posthumous Printing 15 1/2" by 10 1/2" SHN552 $375 excellent condition, good bleed-throughh

Santa Claus in Snow Garden by Kawase Hasui 9" by 8 3/5" SHN500 $375 excellent condition, good bleed-throughh

Harbor at Night by Kawase Hasui 15 5/8" by 10 1/2" SHN502 $375	Snow at Shiba Daimon by Kawase Hasui 14" by 10 1/8" SHN530 $425 Later Printing excellent condition, good bleed-throughh


Cherry tree at Koganei Cherry at Night, Koganei by Kawase Hasui 14 1/4" by 10 3/4 inches SHN524 $375	SnoSnowfall at Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto by Kawase Hasui 15 7/8" by 10 3/4" SHN522 $375


Takegawa River at Dawn by Takashi 1932 printed after WW2, later copy but not recent 15 3/8" by 11 1/8" SHN514 $345	Mt Fuji from Hagoromo Beach by Koichi Okada Cut out on right is for printing alignment and not a defect 16 1/8" by 11/18" SHN513 $275

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Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) is one the great masters of the Shin Hanga movement. Shortly before his death, the Japanese government declared his art work a Living National Treasure, the highest honor bestowed in modern-day Japan.

Shin Hanga, or “new prints” incorporated Western tastes and eye for beauty into traditional Japanese art. Their popularity is largely due to the efforts of Shozaburo Watanabe, a keen businessman who gathered young artists around him to learn the new European concepts of perspective, light and shade. Today, Shoichiro Wantanbe continues the long family tradition, and still issues Hasui prints from the original woodblock designs, and Panteek's prints as shown on this page come from directly from him. We rarely sell prints from the life time editions are they are now prohibitively expensive, alas.

Hasui was born in Tokyo and studied both Japanese and European painting techniques as a child. His interest in Japanese woodblock prints developed during his apprenticeship at the age of 27 with the famous Japanese painter, Kaburaki Kiyokata, and his friendship with another apprentice, Ito Shinsui.

The master of landscape prints, Hasui’s intense blue night scenes and the designs showing snowfall or rain are hugely popular with their vivid colouring and entrancing natural beauty. The artist's landscape prints hardly ever show people, partially because he was nearsighted and needed to wear thick glasses to see details. People also would not stand still long enough for him to work. He traveled the length and breadth of Japan to create his art, sketching out a scenic landscape before him then adding color later. On his return visits to Tokyo, Watanabe's wood carvers would make the blocks for printing.