Kawase Hasui Japanese Woodblock Moonlit & Snow Prints

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Cherry Blossoms by Eiichi Kotozuka
Measures approximately 17 1/2 by 11 1/2 inches
SHN504A $125

Thirty Aspects of Kyoto by Tomikichiro Tokurikion
mounted on thick shikishiban cardboard, 1936
9 1/2 by 10 3/4 inches
SHN500 $175

Snow Scene with Trees by Takashi Hirose, 1978
Signed in pencil in plate, Artist's Proof
13 3/4 by 10 1/4 inches
SHN501 $225

Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji - Mt. Fuji seen through Full Blooming Cherry Tree -
Pre-W.W.II edition by Tomikichiro Tokuriki
16 1/2 by 11 1/2 inches, paper toned
SHN502 $325


Bamboo and the Crescent Moon by Eiichi Kotozuka, early printing 17 3/4 by 11 1/2 inches SHN503 $225	Pagoda at Ninnaji Temple by Benji Asasa 1950 16 by 10 3/8 inches SHN504 $225


Night Scene Series-Suma Beach at Night 1910-1930 Yoshimune Arai lifetime edition, Artist's Seal 8 by 10 3/4 inches SHN340 $325	Tori and Full Moon 1930 Kobayashi Kiyochika Signature, Artist's Seal 7 5/8 by 10 inches SHN341 SOLD

Rising Moon at Nagase-Unknown Artist circa 1930
SHN120 $395


Eijiro Koyobashi, Evening Cool on the Sumida River SHN25 $275	Suma Beach at Night 1930 by Yoshimune Arai SHN324 $345


Tsukagoshi Shrine by Hiroaki Takahashi 1936 SHN325 $345	Torii and Full Moon by Kiyochika Kobayashi 1930 SHN326 $395


Moon over a Canal F. Miyagi 1930 SHN328 $225	Lighted House by Kiyochika Kobayashi 1930 SHN329 $325

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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.

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.

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Kawase Hasui Japanese Woodblock Moonlit & Snow Prints