HASUI -- "Snow at Shiba Park" (#8)

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Artist Hasui KAWASE
(1883-1957)
Title "Snow at Shiba Park"
("Shiba Koen no Yuki")
Date January 1931
(purchased 1947 Tokyo)
Provenance Private placement. Consigned by family of Navy Hospital Corps servicewoman Verna Woodrich stationed in Yokohama/Tokyo 1947.
Series na
Publisher Watanabe Shozaburo
Seal, Carver/Printer Unsealed (Hand-applied, occasionally omitted--not uncommon from Watanate Publisher.)
Known collected 1947, Tokyo.
Image Size 9 3/8 x 14 1/4 (plus margins)
Impression Very Fine. Superbly executed "bokashi" shading; lightly "gauffraged" accumulation of snow; baren "sujizuri"
(tracings) to roof-top and foreground snow; life-like reflection.
Condition Excellent. Excellent colors. Very clean front and verso. (Light toning; possibly some very slight wear.) All prints within this 1947 collection have never been displayed -- stored flat past 71 years.
Reference/Illus Narazaki #319; Hotei #244.
Comments Strikingly beautiful wintertime "red temple/umbrella" image.
From a 1947 Tokyo Japan military collection. Nice!
Item # SF-03
Price $1250