HASUI -- "Cloudy Day at Mizuki, Ibaraki" (#2)

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Artist Hasui KAWASE (1883-1957)
Title "Cloudy Day at Mizuki, Ibaraki"
("Mizuki no Komoribi")
Date 1946
("First Edition" printing)
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 Black "6mm-seal" (used only 1946-57) and appropriate "First Edition" seal.
Known collected 1947, Tokyo.
Image Size 9 3/4 x 13 1/8 (plus margins)
Impression Very Fine. Superbly executed "bokashi" shading to sky, water, and buildings; highly detailed carving.
Condition Excellent. Excellent colors. Very clean front and verso. (Light toning; otherwise flawless.) All prints within this 1947 collection have never been displayed -- stored flat past 71 years.
Reference/Illus Narazaki #469; Hotei #486.
Comments Peaceful fishing village ocean scene. First state printing; color variant with bluer sky and water, and green (not grey) tarp on left. Bears appropriate "First Edition" seal. From a 1947 Tokyo Japan military collection.
Item # SF-09
Price $1450