HASUI -- "Snow at Ueno Kiyomizu Temple"

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Title "Snow at Ueno Kiyomizu Temple"
("Ueno Kiyomizu no Yuki")
Date 1929
(later edition, ca1999/2001)
Series One of 16 images originally published by Kawaguchi & Sakai (1929-30).
Publisher Shobisha
Seal, Carver/Printer na
Image Size 9 3/8 x 14 1/4
Impression Very Fine. Skillfully executed "bokashi" shading; "gauffrage" (embossing) to tree's accumulation of snow and falling snow-flakes; highly detailed carving.
Condition Excellent. (No flaws noted.)
Reference/Illus Frontispiece to Pachter's "Kawase Hasui and his Contemporaries" reference; Andacht p111; Narazaki #KS-1; Hotei #181.
Comments Published by Shobisha (who acquired woodblocks from Kawaguchi & Sakai around 1950).
Item # Available NOW As JS-2713;
(JS-2644 Sold/GS; JS-2444 Sold/BG; JS-2445 Sold/LM; JS-2751 Sold/BR; JS-2643 Sold/MN; JS-2598 Sold/EA;
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Price $360