HASUI -- "Megaro Fudo Temple" (#10)

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Artist Hasui KAWASE (1883-1957)
Title "Megaro Fudo Temple"
("Megaro Fudo do")
Date 1931 (life-time 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/right), 1946-57 printing
Image Size 9 1/2 x 14 1/4
Impression Very Fine. Skillfully executed "bokashi" shading to sky, trees, temple structures, stone areas, and foreground; light "gauffrage" (embossing) to cherry blossoms; marvelously life-like shadowing; highly detailed carving.
Condition Excellent. Excellent colors. Very clean front and verso.
(Couple surface scratches--otherwise flawless.)
Reference/Illus Narazaki #322; Hotei #263.
Comments Delightful springtime temple image. Narazaki reports that this composition was designed with an interest in depicting the complex shadows seen cast upon the flagstones of the temple's path and steps. Interestingly, the "backwards swastika" symbol is actually the Japanese kanji for "temple."
Item # BK-26
Price $1150 (Sold/PB)