| Artist | Hasui KAWASE (1883-1957) |
| Title | "Zentsuji Temple in Rain" ("Sanshu Zensetsu-ji") |
| Date | 1937 (life-time 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 | Red "6-mm seal" (lower/right), 1946-57 printing. Known collected 1947, Tokyo. |
| Image Size | 9 1/2 x 14 1/8 |
| Impression | Very Fine. Superbly executed "bokashi" shading to sky, temple gate, and pagoda; light "gauffrage" to pagoda, trees, and gate; vertical streaks as falling rain; light "baren sujizuri" to foreground; 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 #240; Hotei #334. |
| Comments | Colorful pagoda temple scene.
From a 1947 Tokyo Japan military collection. |
| Item # | SF-34 |
| Price | $900 (SOLD) |
