HASUI -- "(Mt Fuji from) Yui Town, Suruga" (#2)

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Artist Hasui KAWASE
(1883-1957)
Title "(Mt Fuji from) Yui Town, Suruga" ("Suruga Yui-Cho")
Date 1934
Watanabe "C-seal"
(aka "sausage-seal")
used only 1929-42
Series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido" ("Tokaido Fukui Senshu") 1931-47
Publisher Watanabe Shozaburo
Seal, Carver/Printer Watanabe "D-seal"
(used only 1931 to 1941).
Image Size 9 1/2 x 14 1/4
Impression Very Fine.
Superbly executed "bokashi" shading; "gauffrage" to Fuji's top; baren "sujizuri" to foreground; highly detailed.
Condition Very Good.
Quite good colors.
Clean front and backside. (Narrow mat-line at edges; light toning.)
Reference/Illus Narazaki #181; Blair 1936 Toledo Catalogue #101.
Comments Gorgeous Mt Fuji image -- very seldom seen.
Early pre-War printing.
Item # GG-302
Price $1,150 (Sold/LI/j52)