| Artist | Hasui KAWASE (1883-1957) |
| Title | "Asakusa Kannon Temple After Snowfall" ("Asakusa Kannon no Yukibare") |
| Date | 1926 (First Edition) |
| Provenance | Private placement. Consigned by family of Air Force serviceman John Kinney stationed in Tokyo 1946-57. |
| Series | "Twenty Views of Tokyo" ("Tokyo Nijukei") |
| Publisher | Watanabe Shozaburo |
| Seal, Carver/Printer | Watanabe "A-seal" top left (appropriate "First Edition" seal). |
| Image Size | 9 3/8 x 14 1/4 |
| Impression | Very Fine. Skillfully executed "bokashi" shading throughout print; extensive "gauffrage" (embossing) to snow-cover roof, building, trees, and forground snow; strongly visible woodgrain in sky; baren "sujizuri" tracings to foreground snow; crisp key-lines, highly detailed carving. |
| Condition | Excellent. Bright fresh colors. Very clean front and verso. (Tiny area minor rubbing right foreground snow--otherwise absolutely flawless.) |
| Reference/Illus | Narazaki #151; Hotei #151. |
| Comments | Strikingly beautiful. Very early--one of Hasui's finest early snowscenes. 1926 "First Edition" printing. Rarely seen. |
| Item # | BK-23 |
| Price | $2700 (Sold/NK) |
