HASUI -- "Shirakawa Castle Ruins, Cherry Blossoms" (#4)

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Artist Hasui KAWASE (1883-1957)
Title "Shirakawa Castle Ruins, Cherry Blossoms"
("Shirakawajoshi no Sakura")
Date 1946 (Life-time edition. Known collected 1947, hence "First Edition.")
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. (Not uncommon at Watanabe - but known collected 1947, Tokyo.)
Image Size 9 1/2 x 14 1/4
Impression Very Fine. Superbly executed "bokashi" shading to sky, trees and foreground; extensive "gauffrage" to flowering trees; highly detailed carving.
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 #468; Hotei #483.
Comments Beautifully colored springtime scene dating to 1946 and collected 1947 -- hence a "First Edition" printing. A colorful Hasui design printed with deeply saturated colors.
From a 1947 Tokyo Japan military collection.
Item # SF-12
Price $1150