HASUI -- "Spring Rain at Sakurada Gate, (Tokyo)"

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Artist Hasui KAWASE (1883-1957)
Title "Spring Rain at Sakurada Gate, (Tokyo)"
("Sakuradaman no Harusame")
Date 1952 (First Edition)
Provenance Private placement. Consigned by family of Air Force serviceman John Kinney stationed in Tokyo 1946-57.
Series na
Publisher Watanabe Shozaburo
Seal, Carver/Printer Black "6-mm seal" lower/left (appropriate "First Edition" seal). Personally "brush-signed" (right margin) "Kawase Hasui" by artist.
Image Size 9 1/2 x 14 1/4
Impression Very Fine. Skillfully executed "bokashi" shading throughout print; light "gauffrage"
(embossing) to cherry trees; life-like reflection; crisp key-lines, highly detailed carving.
Condition Excellent. Excellent colors.
Clean front and verso.
(Couple small surface scratches--otherwise flawless.)
Reference/Illus Narazaki #543; Hotei #572.
Comments Cherry blossom springtime image.
Personally "brush-signed"
(right margin) "Kawase Hasui" by artist
on May 10, 1953--a very RARE plus.
"First Edition" printing.
Item # BK-08
Price $1450 (Sold/NS)