HASUI -- "Snow at Heian Shrine, Kyoto" (#2)

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Title "Snow at Heian Shrine, Kyoto"
("Heianjingu no Yuki, Kyoto")
Date 1948 (1948-57, lifetime printing)
Provenance Small private collection, 1957 purchased in Yokosura, Japan.
Series na
Publisher Watanabe Shozaburo
Seal, Carver/Printer Black "6mm seal" (used 1946-57; lifetime edition).
Image Size 9 1/2 x 14 1/4
Impression Very Fine.
Wonderful "bokashi" shading; baren "sujizuri" tracings seen at bottom; light "gauffraged" accumulation of snow rooftop and to dark falling snow streaks; highly detailed, crisp key-lines.
Condition Very Good+++. Clean front and verso. (Four-inch diagonal crease upper/left; light toning; light wear.)
Reference/Illus Narazaki #492; Hotei #510.
Comments Gorgeous red temple/snowscene image.
Not often seen.
Item # BG-776
Price Bi-Weekly Special $595 SOLD
(Reg $795)